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Jun

I Still Have a Dream Today

By chuck 5 Comments

Categories: Journal with Video and Message with Video

Happy Sunday!

Got up early, wish it was earlier… having a phenomenal time with God today… would love to extend it for a few more hours! Yesterday was the biggest Saturday for the blog site ever… thanks for the interest you guys… hope your Saturday was beautiful in every way!

All night long, every time I awoke… the word HOPE was calling out to me!

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I STILL HAVE A DREAM! (The Trumpet of Conscience 1967)

After all you’ve been through, dare to say, “I STILL HAVE A DREAM!”

I hope to see a pile of you guys at Destiny Family Center this morning… 10am. Guess what I’m talking about?

Ohh… my birthday party celebration is tonight at 5pm… details and directions in the Destiny Times… HOPE you can make it! Have a super day everyone!

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Jun

Grab the Initiative, Take Action, Do it Now!

By chuck 4 Comments

Categories: Journal & Message

Happy Wednesday!

Got home from Vacation Bible School last night to find a surprise pool set up on my patio! Not a little inflatable one… it’s 15 x 4 you guys! Ok, so Emily asks me yesterday if she can get a small pool from WalMart and put it on the patio… and I just kind of looked at her like, “I think it’ll look a little tacky, but if that will make you happy, go get one.”

Thinking back on that conversation, I remember her saying, “Charlie, can I get one of those SMALL 12 foot WalMart pools and put it RIGHT HERE on the patio?” (hand motioning that the pool she had in her devious little mind was going to fit into the LITTLE area she was suggesting… and even though she said TWELVE FOOTER, my mind caught the key words SMALL and a mental picture of the THREE FOOT area she was claiming for this TINY project.

I didn’t even really think she was serious until I got home at 9:30pm last night… and there it was… a BIG BLUE… FIFTEEN FOOTER, WalMart pool. EMILY BALSAMO!

Of course, Cole Moore had helped her and Heaven put it together… and as I began to resist, they all gave me this look like, “PLEASE DAD CAN WE KEEP IT… we worked so hard in the BLAZING SUN… ALL DAY LONG… to give you this amazing FATHER’S DAY PRESENT!!!!

Actually, after I got past the initial SHOCK, I was quite happy she took INITIATIVE and made this happen for our family! So, I did some finishing touches to the liner while Cole and Heaven installed the filter system… and we turned on the water hose! Eight hours later, we have a functioning POOL!

Pool party anyone?

Matthew 7:12-14 The Message Bible: “Here is a simple, RULE-OF-THUMB GUIDE FOR BEHAVIOR: Ask yourself what you want people to do for you, then GRAB THE INITIATIVE and do it for them. Add up God’s Law and Prophets and this is what you get.”

Same verse in different translation: “DO TO OTHERS whatever YOU WOULD LIKE THEM TO DO TO YOU. This is the essence of all that is taught in the law and the prophets.”

Is this what Emily was doing with the pool… did she GRAB THE INITIATIVE and do for me, WHATEVER she WANTED me to do for her? Awww, thats so nice Emily… so Christian-like my dear dear wife! LOL

Initiative: The power or ability to BEGIN or to follow through ENERGETICALLY with a plan or task; enterprise and DETERMINATION; a beginning or introductory step; an opening move.

Seriously, I have to ADMIRE the INITIATIVE of this tiny gal… she has always been a TAKE ACTION kind of lady… NEVER lazy, never afraid to take on a challenge, never hesitant to GRAB THE INITIATIVE! Emily has way to much POWER and ability for making those INTRODUCTORY MOVES… with ENERGY and DETERMINATION… she doesn’t linger for perfect conditions!

It’s scary at times, but a VERY ADVENTUROUS 19 years!

Initiative is a vital part of turning HOPES into REALITIES. “Faith is the substance of things HOPED for, the evidence of things NOT YET SEEN.” Faith takes HOPES (dream, visions, promises, and prophecies) and manifests the power and ability to BEGIN… or to FOLLOW THROUGH energetically with a PLAN (the thing hoped for)… with ENTERPRISE and DETERMINATION… faith takes the introductory step… faith makes the opening move!

By faith, Peter JUMPED OUT OF THE BOAT when Jesus invited him out on the waters! By faith Noah started building an ark! Faith is never lazy… faith does not linger for perfect conditions… faith always says LET’S GET THIS STARTED… LET’S DO THIS NOW… LET’S TURN EVERY ONE OF THESE EXTRAVAGANT HOPES INTO LIVING REALITIES!

I pray that todays blog adds tremendous value to your amazing lives! I love you all… praying your day is filled with many BLESSINGS! Please leave your comments… tootaloooo!

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Jun

The Hope of Restoration

By chuck 2 Comments

Categories: All Message

Good Morning Everyone!

I read in Micah this morning… and a few verses JUMPED off the page… check this out you guys.

Micah 2:12-13

“Someday, O Israel, I will GATHER you;
      I will gather the REMNANT who are left.
   I will bring you TOGETHER AGAIN like sheep in a pen,
      like a flock in its pasture.
   Yes, your land will again
      be filled with NOISY CROWDS!
Your LEADER WILL BREAK OUT
      and LEAD YOU OUT of exile,
   out through the gates of the enemy cities,
      back TO YOUR OWN LAND.
   Your king will lead you;
   THE LORD HIMSELF will guide you.”

Even though this prophecy contains it’s purest message to the Jewish people as a promise that God will bring them back into their stolen territories… there is a BIG message within this message to all of us TODAY!

Someday… I will gather the remnant people who are left! God is saying… I will GATHER the ones who were able to weather the adversity and remain upright! The trees who’s roots RAN DEEPER during those times of raging winds and rainless clouds… those who have demonstrated their FAITHFULNESS in oppressive times… that they CANNOT and WILL NOT be shaken! Those who welcome challenges as opportunities to halt and prove their identity!

If you have been scattered in times of adversity… you have been ravished on the outside, but on the INSIDE you’re STILL STANDING SOLID IN YOUR FAITH! If you can just HOLD ON WHEN in times like these… and keep it together when so many others are falling apart and falling away… if you can DEMONSTRATE that YOU are a SURVIVOR…

God promises to GATHER you again… and BRING YOU TOGETHER with other SURVIVORS… not for the purpose of living in the miserable memories of yesteryear! He promises to BRING YOU TOGETHER like SHEEP IN A PEN… like a FLOCK IN ITS BEAUTIFUL PASTURE!

He says that YOUR LAND… those places and things that God has given to you throughout the years… things that seem to have been STOLEN and not recoverable… YOUR LAND will AGAIN be FILLED with NOISY CROWDS… a sign of VICTORY, MULTIPLICATION… and GREAT CELEBRATION!

God promises to GIVE YOU A LEADER who will BREAK OUT… and LEAD YOU FROM EXILE… out through the gates of your enemies and into YOUR OWN LAND again! So pray for your leaders like never before… believe for leaders who will RISE UP AND BREAK OUT… to LEAD their FLOCKS from exile!

At the end of this prophecy, Micah says… YOUR KING WILL LEAD YOU… THE LORD HIMSELF WILL BE YOUR GUIDE! This is a promise of Gods PRESENCE DWELLING in the hearts of all his people, LEADING us into the GREENEST PASTURES EVER!

Psalm 23

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

I realize how PREACHY this blog may sound today… I’m pretty excited about it as you can tell… hoping these words add tremendous value to your amazing lives! Please tell your friends, leave your comments, and pray for us as we PRAY SO MUCH FOR YOU! Have a super duper day everyone…

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Jun

Learning How To Dream

By chuck 6 Comments

Categories: All Journal and Announcement

Happy Wednesday!

FYI: I’m preaching at Trinity Harvest Church in Pikeville, Kentucky Friday night at 7pm… if your close to Pikeville, see you there?

Hows life for you guys today? Things going well? I really care and I’m really praying for God to help you into the victories you desire! Everyone has dreams… you have dreams of being and doing so many things! Hold on to those dreams… and never let them out of your sight! Anything is POSSIBLE… and your DREAMS, no matter how BIG they may look from where you are standing today… they are POSSIBLE!

Most of the time, dreams take a very long time growing up into living realities. A dream is a PICTURE of what is POSSIBLE.

Hebrews 11:1 Now FAITH is the substance of THINGS HOPED for, the evidence of things not seen.

Dreams are the THINGS HOPED FOR in this faith formula! Without THINGS HOPED FOR, our FAITH has nothing to go after!

So, in order to live a miraculous kind of existence… in order to live by FAITH and not by SIGHT… in order to fully experience the super amazing destinies God has for you and me… we MUST GET BETTER AT DREAMING!

For most people, their tiny dreams are not much more than an impression in their heart. For others… a mental photograph. There are some people who carry around mental PHOTO ALBUM of their various dreams. And then there is that very small elite group of DREAMERS out there who DREAM SO WELL they have actually GONE INTO THE FUTURE AND LIVED THEIR DREAMS ALREADY!

AGAIN… Hebrews 11:1 Now FAITH is the substance of THINGS HOPED for, the evidence of things not seen.

FAITH is the VEHICLE that transports a person from the LAND OF HOPES into the LAND OF DESTINY. Faith CREATES SUBSTANCE out of the things WE HOPE FOR… or DREAM ABOUT!

HOPE has its very necessary purpose… hope cannot do what ONLY faith can do. Hope says, maybe someday. Hope says, that sure would be nice. Hope says, here are my dreams… my possibilities… this is my potential.

Then, once we have HOPE… once we have a CLEAR DREAM, faith steps up and says LET US GO UP NOW, AGAINST ALL ODDS IF NECESSARY, AND LET US TURN THIS DREAM INTO A LIVING REALITY… FOR THIS DREAM IS AS GOOD AS DONE!

If I can SEE IT, I CAN HAVE IT! Therefore, I must become an expert at DREAMING the DREAMS of God for my life! I have to stop reducing the size of my dreams down to the size of my human capabilities. I must not filter my dreams through the vastness of my obstacles… instead, I have to BELIEVE that with GOD all things are possible… to them that BELIEVE!

Are you good at DREAMING the DREAMS OF GOD? Maybe you should consider starting a DREAM JOURNAL… a place where you can doodle pages and pages of DREAMS… a place where you can DREAM WITHOUT LIMITS… DREAM as if your FATHER IS THE ONE WHO CREATED EVERYTHING AND CAN DO ANYTHING! Sounds like a good plan to me!

Have fun you guys: DREAM ON… DREAM ON… DREAM UNTIL YOUR DREAMS COME TRUUUUUUUUUUUE! I pray this blog adds tremendous future value to your amazing lives! Please leave your comments… I love to read them all! Come to church tonight at Destiny Family Center… see you there!

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Apr

Welcome 2 Your Next Great Adventure!

By chuck 3 Comments

Categories: All Message

Good Monday Everyone,

I wonder if diversions should be welcomed as great adventures? We work so hard to establish nice little patterns for our lives. We try to make so many perfect moves. We try so hard to automate as much as possible. We flip out when circumstances arise to shock us with unwelcomed CHANGE.

I wonder if we should count adversity as an act of evil or an act of grace? Has all this pressure and all this agony come into your life to bring you down OR has it come to LIFT YOU UP? Is the universe rallied against you OR is the universe NUDGING you into the NEXT GREAT ADVENTURE?

Instead of weeping in a spirit of hopelessness, should we fall down and worship at the feet of our FATHER with a renewed sense of FAITH, HOPE, AND LOVE!

God is BIGGER than people… and God is BIGGER than our imperfections! Therefore, we should never feel like ANYTHING from our past has any real shot at canceling our future in Christ!

Think about this: If reaching your divine destiny depended upon YOUR PERFECTION, it would never happen! If you had to make the correct turn at all ten thousand intersections this decade, you would end up in the wrong place way out in the wastelands!

Is your life really as messed up as it may seem right now? Should you accept your current set of circumstances as a sure sign of defeat… and should you just throw in the towel… stop dreaming… stop aiming for all those beautiful dreams?

Be careful not to assess your progress through human reasonings. For GODS WAYS ARE HIGHER THAN OUR WAYS and GODS THOUGHTS ARE HIGHER THAN OUR THOUGHTS! If he is GOD than he has a trillion ways of getting each of us safely to our destinations!

So when life seems to throw us a great big curve ball… and life seems to punch us out cold… and life seems to smack us WAY OFF THE BEATEN PATH… we should NOT despair my friends! Instead, we should raise our faces and lift hands to the deep BLUE SKIES and BLESS THIS BRAND NEW GREAT ADVENTURE!

Proverbs 3:1-6

¹ ”My son, do not forget my teaching,
but keep my commands in your heart,

² for they will prolong your life many years
and bring you prosperity.

³ Let love and faithfulness never leave you;
bind them around your neck,
write them on the tablet of your heart.

⁴ Then you will win favor and a good name
in the sight of God and man.

⁵ Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;

⁶ in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight.”

Ok… so there you have it… another paradigm for the same set of circumstances! Selah! Think about this… meditate on all the opportunities this inconvenience could be bringing about. TRUST my friends! TRUST that God is still CRAZY ABOUT YOU… he is STILL WORKING ALL THINGS OUT FOR YOUR GOOD!

I pray that todays blog adds TREMENDOUS value to your amazing lives! God bless you all… have a most ADVENTUROUS DAY!

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Mar

Seasons: Spring to the Rescue! :) :) :)

By chuck 3 Comments

Categories: Journal & Message

Good Morning Friends!

Yesterday’s blog was HOT! The stats were off the charts… thanks for caring about things that matter! It’s a real tribute to my friends when blog topics like yesterday are so active! The love was felt… it was FUN for all of us! Thank you!

It’s Friday… and warm weather is HERE… 70 degrees tomorrow! Hope you guys and gals have a fun weekend planned… I will be running 12 miles with my lovely fitness trainer and wife! Then, yard work! I’m getting pretty excited about SPRING and SUMMER! They are such HAPPY seasons… it’s real easy to be VIBRANT and HOPEFUL when the sun is shining, the air is warm, grass is green, flowers are blooming, and birds are singing!

My short inspirational thought for today: Take spiritual and emotional advantage of the natural shifting of seasons.

Here’s what I’m talking about… WINTER is almost over! Spring is only two weeks away! Winter represents deadness… spring represents newness. I’m gonna talk more about this in the weeks to come… for now, just START SMILING as you LOOK AHEAD to a NEW SEASON!

No matter how COLD and DEAD this current wintry season has been for you… SPRING IS COMING! Our lives work just the same way… and if we can ENDURE the cold seasons… we WILL MOST CERTAINLY LIVE AGAIN as the season shifts in our favor again.

Winter is a very necessary season… it has a way of purging the atmosphere! Whether we know it or not, all of us have things that build up over time that need to be PURGED from our lives. Winter kind of represents the pruning season… that season of loss… a time of humiliation… a time of desperation. When we go through WINTERS… especially LONG winters… we LONG FOR SPRING!

Even though this has been a mild winter and I personally LOVE the snow… I am YEARNING FOR THIS SPRING! I feel like more than ever, what’s happening in the natural is also happening in the SPIRITUAL! It feels like something WARM is COMMING TO ME! I sense NEWNESS… and I wanna jump up and SHOUT ABOUT IT! Hurry up spring… I can’t handle another COLD day… not until next year!

I hope this blog gets you guys excited… I pray it creates ANTICIPATION! Don’t give up now… help is in the air! Have a super day… leave your comments… make plans to be at Destiny Family Center this Sunday @ 10am! Chat with you later on…

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Feb

When Your Faith Remains Strong…

By chuck 5 Comments

Categories: All Message

Good Saturday Morning Friends!

A few days ago, I posted a blog: Stop Flipping Out… Relax! Today, I want to respond to a bloggers comment as my teaching point.

In the referenced blog, I talked about turning our mountain making fears into mountain moving faith. I made a very transparent statement about how I respond to my own challenges at times, and I talked about the importance of growing up in FAITH. Here’s a quote from that blog:

“So often, I turn little problems into HUGE ones as I refuse to let God work them out. In panic, my judgment becomes clouded… I fret and fear… I allow the small problem to take my entire mind captive. Before long, I’m unable to see the good things happening in my world… I become trapped in a realm of hopelessness… I grow weary, I breakdown, and burn out.”

Blogger Des, known for his own blog as christianranter.worpress.com wrote the following reply to my above referenced post:

“Now since you said that you and your wife are opposites; is she the one who does more of the faith thing and you’re the fretter? I know that’s the case in my house and it drives me nuts as she always ends up being right about stuff I worry about.”

Ok, here is my reply to Des’ question…

Des, I used to be so much stronger in the faith realm… I was fearless in the face of opposition… and over the past few years, I’ve weakened in my mountain moving skills. This is one BIG thing I am working on for this season of my life.

Emily has one of the most UNSHAKABLE FAITHS I’ve ever encountered! Emily lives everyday like a bulldog on a juicy stake! She NEVER waivers from a promise of God… she believes that EVERYTHING will work out… and she HELPS to keep me doing the same!

It really is amazing how God puts people together for synergistic purposes! The two of us equal far more than the sum total of our two individual components! As for me, I am aiming to REBUILD my FAITH and get back to WALKING IN THE MIRACULOUS once again.

Through the relentless pounding of the crashing waves of this stormy half decade, I have become far too circumstance oriented… been tossed around way more than I should have allowed. Instead of CALMING my storms and COMMANDING my mountains to MOVE, I have spent far too many days crying, “Why me?”

Just realizing this sets me on a new path of opportunity! I celebrate ENDURANCE and I praise God for keeping me alive in the fiery furnace! I’ve learned so many priceless lessons… and I am coming forth as GOLD REFINED IN THE FIRE!

1 Peter 1:7 says this, “These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold-though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.”

Wooohoooo!! This is a mighty ENCOURAGING BLOG TODAY! Hope you love it… pray that it ADDS great value to your amazing lives! See you tomorrow in person @ 10am- Destiny Family Center… tomorrow is SUNDAY!!

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Feb

Stop Flipping Out… Relax!

By chuck 5 Comments

Categories: Journal & Message

calm-down Good Morning Bloggers!

Last night… a bunch of church friends gave Emily a beautiful birthday party!! It was a blast… the birthday cheer was amazing… the cake was AMAZING! I prayed earlier that God would do something really nice today for every party guest! So brace yourselves… its coming!

I woke this morning… in the same vein of revelation I was in all day yesterday. For some reason, I’m inspired to talk again about turning our problems over to God. This is such a challenge for most of us… it is for me. So often, I turn little problems into HUGE ones as I refuse to let God work them out. In panic, my judgment becomes clouded… I fret and fear… I allow the small problem to take my entire mind captive. Before long, I’m unable to see the good things happening in my world… I become trapped in a realm of hopelessness… I grow weary, I breakdown, and burn out.

If we want to experience more peace, and more happy outcomes in our lives… we’re going to have to change the way we RESPOND to stressful situations. As soon as we notice ourselves heading down this destructive path, we should seize control of our emotional state… and STAND UP IN A SPIRIT OF FAITH.

This is not easy at first… but well worth the effort. The only option is to live the rest of our lives tossed to and fro with every wind and wave that comes our way! To live in fear is to live in the slavery of what MIGHT go wrong. And the more we submit to fear, the better we become at pointing out destructive possibilities. We have been training ourselves to find every possible opportunity for failure… we welcome destruction because it’s what we think about most of the time. Whatever we focus on and monitor often GROWS VERY BIG!

So today… we must stop doing this to ourselves! We must RISE IN FAITH… RISE IN LOVE… RISE IN THE BOND OF RELATIONSHIP we have with our Heavenly Father. We must train our minds to point out the possibilities for success… in EVERY SITUATION! When problems arise… call them opportunities for PROGRESS! Refuse to come under the darkness of FEAR. Be confident, not in your human strength or your clever alliances… but in the fact that you belong to God Almighty!

Psalm 33:13-22

¹³ The Lord looks down from heaven
      and sees the whole human race.
¹⁴ From his throne he observes
      all who live on the earth.
¹⁵ He made their hearts,
      so he understands everything they do.
¹⁶ The best-equipped army cannot save a king,
      nor is great strength enough to save a warrior.
¹⁷ Don’t count on your warhorse to give you victory—
      for all its strength, it cannot save you.

¹⁸ But the Lord watches over those who fear him,
those who rely on his unfailing love.
¹⁹ He rescues them from death
and keeps them alive in times of famine.

²⁰ We put our hope in the Lord.
      He is our help and our shield.
²¹ In him our hearts rejoice,
      for we trust in his holy name.
²² Let your unfailing love surround us, Lord,
      for our hope is in you alone.

Ok… that’s it for today… hope this blog adds great value to your amazing lives! Chat later…

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Jan

Stories From The Streets Of Washington DC…

By chuck 3 Comments

Categories: Journal & Message

Good Monday Everyone!

I’m in my family room listing to a Kent Henry Worship Instrumental… feeling pretty overwhelmed with God’s love right now. How can I explain moments like these in human language? Every once in a while, the reality of God sweeps through my heart and mind… my eyes water, a tear slowly make its way down my cheek, chills pop all over my body… and I sit in that moment wishing it would last forever!

Like the alignment of sun, moon, and earth that brings us the rarity of an eclipse… these spiritual moments occur through the rare alignment of certain spiritual occurrences. And when they all come together at one special moment… their rarity is felt and appreciated for some time!

I suppose for me today… the components of my experience are very obvious! It begins with the Washington DC Outreach. This year, even more than previous years… I really experienced the enormity of what took place! There are so many hurting, lonely people in our earth. And while so many well to do humans point the finger down at these bleeding ones, God compels us to come to their aid! God cares about each one of them… not desiring to lecture them about the series of wrong turns they made that led them down into the gutter… He possesses us with his compassion and sends us to kneel down beside them… He gives us a message to speak… He asks us to read them a love letter… And we go with his love and his tears. He embraces them with MY ARMS… and I can feel HIM IN ME making his appeal through MY HEART.

This year, we took a team of 35+ into the frigid streets of our nation’s capitol. All day long, we gave HOPE to the HOPELESS. Even more than the message we gave them was the message we asked them to tell us. We gave them our ears… we listened to them like they mattered… and they FELT OUR LOVE FOR THEM! Their tears and ours flowed like rivers all day long.

On man “Alfrado” explained how he came to America from Elsalvador… it took him 3 months to get here, dreaming that this would be a place of new life for him. And there he was sleeping on park benches and eating food from the trash containers. Alfrado said that some nights, it’s so cold he is scared to fall asleep… that he may freeze to death and not wake up.

Another lady “Pricilla” said that she just got released from prison a year ago after being stabbed in her spine during a prison brawl. She grabbed me and made a puddle on my shoulder as she wept about how scary it is living on the streets at night! She talked about being raped and beaten over and over… and told me that she is not built for this kind of life!

Then there was “HANK”… the happiest homeless man on the face of the earth. We all left Hank wondering if we had met an angel! Just like Hank, so many of these destitute men and women gave us back so much more that we gave to them!

Throughout this day, we distributed hundreds of sandwiches, care packages, sweaters, sweatshirts, blankets, and everything else we could get into their hands. More than these… we gave them Jesus… and they took him happily into their hearts! Every single person on our team stepped out with a fearless kind of faith… they shared their personal life stories, prayed like seasoned ministers, and gave LOVE as if God himself was right there in physical manifestation!

Special thanks to Evangelist Gerald & Phyllis Mayhan for being our homeless outreach GUIDES… for their passion, their humor, and their love!

Beyond the DC Outreach, God is warming my heart today with the nearness I feel with my wife and kids, the accuracy I feel in the message I have been preaching at DFC, and the awesomeness of Gods Word stored up in my heart after reading the bible cover to cover in 66 days! All of these things have come together this morning to BLESS ME with a very SPIRITUAL MOMENT. To God be the glory for all of this… and for filling my life with his amazing love! I pray that he will work in all of us more and more… and more and more! That we will RISE AND SHINE in 2009… that we will love living the life of a beautiful people in a CITY ON A HILL… SHINING for the entire world to see!

Check out the DFC webcast archive from yesterday morning to watch more on the DC Outreach… and to catch the rest of that amazing service! Chat with you guys later on…

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Jan

Long Live God Almighty :)

By chuck 9 Comments

Categories: All Message

one-world-religion Happy Wednesday Friends!

I watched and prayed through the Inauguration of President Barak Obama yesterday. The event was beautiful… his speech was very good. I really appreciated many of President Obama’s words… I saw HOPE in him yesterday. It is my prayer that God will reach him and steer his heart AWAY from the far left liberal agenda he has promised America.

I personally agree with a tiny portion of the liberal argument. I do believe that some politicians and national leaders in the conservative camp are standing in the way of progress. This is because of their lack of adventure and inovation, not their commitment to ancient morals or their religious fortitude. So I pray for conservatives to have an open mind… to be far more creative and far more flexible where new ideas do not violate Gods commands.

Far left America cannot and should not blame God or our commitment to Gods ancient truths for the lack of creativity within our camp. Our bold commitment to God has never and will never, hold us back from great progress. For some time now, this has been the argument. That in order for America to go forward, we need a metamorphosis in our traditional religious basis. There is overwhelming pressure on the conservative camp to move our ancient border stakes… to adjust our moral position and tone down our relationship with God… to tolerate and accommodate a changing world.

Religious and moral tolerance is not the solution. The standard must endure and modern civilizations must remain committed to the timeless biblical truths of all real freedom. God’s holy word and Jesus Christ, savior of the world… this is the standard that made us… it is the standard that gave America the freedom we promote throughout the earth. True freedom is not found in being controlled by nothing… it is found in being committed to unchanging truths and an Almighty God. In the shifting tides of these modern eras, He is a rock of fortitude… the very same yesterday, today, and forever. He is the magnetic north of our moral compass!

Yesterday, I recognized a call for a merging of religions… the harmony of multiple gods under one roof. While I agree that we must seek to live PEACFULLY with people of other religions, we must never mix their gods with our God and make try to make one common God we can all agree upon. If he is God… then we humans should never seek to alter him. And we Americans should never become ashamed to call upon THE ONE GOD that we claimed during the era we were forged. If he was good enough for us then… then we must not abandon him now.

So long live GOD ALMIGHTY here in the United States of America! In God we have trusted… and IN GOD we must always trust.

Hope you guys have another AMAZING day… you’re all beautiful people!! Chat with you later…