Here is an update on me. It appears after I had another cardiologist review my hospital records, that I had a minor heart attack. It now appears that I may have some damage to my heart that is causing the continuation of irregular heart beat.
Yearly Archives: 2014
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I know this scripture was directed specifically to the apostles and Jesus Christ wanted them to be the ones to preach His truth. But what does it mean to those who aren’t ministers? What does it mean to children and young adults? What does it mean to women who don’t have a speaking or ministerial role in the church? Does that mean that we can’t go and preach the gospel? How can we preach without preaching? I have been asking myself these questions for a while...
It is that obnoxious season of the year again. Santa Clause is depicted in every shopping mall. Everywhere you look, there are those fake evergreen trees with red and silver balls hanging on them and sometimes a plastic angel perched on top. And then there is that maddening music. If I hear Jingle Bells one more time, I am going to scream! …And by the way, I am talking about Thailand, not Los Angeles or Dallas. It is now all over Thailand, too.
The Feast of Tabernacles went very well over here in Chiang Mai, Thailand! The other teachers and I were quite busy during the Feast but we loved every minute of it. It was great for us young volunteers to see just a glimpse into what running a Feast site is like! The best part of the Feast for me was witnessing the students so happy as they experienced new things and places. My second favorite part was the music. These students love to sing and I hear them sing on a daily basis...
Dear Friends and Fellow Laborers, Friday, December 5th, was the 87th birth anniversary of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand. In Thailand, December 5th is also celebrated as national Father’s Day. King Bhumibol has the distinction of being the longest reigning monarch in the world today, having ascended the throne on June 9, 1946. Queen Elizabeth II of England is the second longest reigning monarch.
Dear Friends and Fellow Laborers, The following is from the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights: 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. . .' The purpose of what is known as the Establishment Clause was to prevent government from establishing a state religion and to prevent the government from interfering with a citizen’s religious beliefs. Nowhere does it say that religion must be taken out of government. The purpose of the clause was not to take religion out of government, but to keep government out of religion.
30 October 2014 - Dear Friends and Fellow laborers, I wrote a letter several months ago about the blood moons that are to appear on Passover and the high day of the Feast of Tabernacles in both 2014 and 2015. According to Jewish belief, a tetrad like this portends that something very significant will happen to Israel, such as war. It happened during the founding of the State of Israel and the 1967 War...
One week before The Feast of Trumpets the Legacy student body president (Moe Palel), a Legacy Employee (Surachai) and myself (Chris), one of the teachers at Legacy, set out to the western boarder of Thailand to visit with Noh Blay Paw, a lady who is unable to attend the Feast of Tabernacles this year. Noh Blay Paw is the mother of one of the students at Legacy and she lives in a Burmese refugee camp with her husband...
Hosea 8:7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up. Dear Friends and Fellow laborers, The Fall Holy Days are upon us! In a few days we will observe the Feast of Trumpets which symbolically heralds the advent of the Messiah’s return to this earth. It is a time of great turmoil and war that the Bible calls the day of the Lord.
About a month and a half ago I was in the middle of our corn field doing a happy dance. The corn was taller than me and looking so strong! All our hard work had paid off and the corn was growing taller and faster than we had hoped. The following day we show up to the farm and a great amount of the corn had fallen over! I was devastated! The previous night there was a huge storm. The rain flattened out the mounds that the corn root buried itself into and with no foundation; all 7 feet of the corn had fallen over. Also there were some casualties just because the wind was so strong as well. Upon seeing the damage that was done I knew that we needed to fix the problem. So I cancelled planting beans and tending to our other farm in order to keep this corn alive. We went through each row and created stronger rows and mounded them up. We went in the jungle and cut down 10 foot long sticks to dig in next to each plant and we tied the corn to the stick so it could stand up straight. This process took 3 days to accomplish.
20 August 2014, EXODUS 17:14-16 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi 1: For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation. - Dear Friends and Fellow Laborers, Who is Amalek and why does God swear that He will have war with Amelek in every generation?
Luke 21:20 'And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.' I know that the armies are not yet at Jerusalem’s doorstep (Hamas being the closest so far), but things are beginning to gel for the end time conflict of armies in the Holy Land. ISIS, now called the Islamic State, is continuing its advance and ethnic cleansing efforts in northern Iraq. The attacks on Christians and Yazidi minorities continue. The men are killed. The women and young girls enslaved. Children are being beheaded. Those who do not convert must flee for their lives or die.