Why don't you love Jesus?

Can you remember the 1975 song that was done by Jimmy Buffet? Let me refresh your memory " My head hurts, my feet stink, and I don't love Jesus (oh my Lordy it's that...) It's that kind of mornin' 
Really was that kind of night
Tryin' to tell myself that my condition is improvin'
And if I don't die by Thursday I'll be roarin' Friday night

It is a great tragedy that many non-Christians see slavery, not freedom in the Love of Jesus Christ. I often get asked this question, if God is a loving father why do bad things happen? My answer we are living in a fallen world, do we want more evidence than this?

1) Give thanks to the God of gods. His love endures forever.Psalm 136:2,

2) This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

3) This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. 1 John 3:16

The time has come for the people of God to wake up and recognize what is going on in the church. The enemy keeps gnawing away, deceiving us into accepting one lie after another, luring us into believing a compromised gospel, until the diluted body we call the church is pleasing to everyone.

It is time once again for the church to show the people their transgressions and point out their sins. Sin is the one thing we all have in common, but nobody likes to talk about it. Sin stops us from receiving all God has for us. We have created a hope t-shirt to kind of point us in that direction as believers.

Our hope t-shirt reminds us that the message of sin is a message of hope, for Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God who came to take away the sins of the world. We need not shrink from calling sin what it is, even at the risk of being rejected and ridiculed. Some will always turn away when confronted with their sin, but many more will be saved.

John 1:29    The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

I want you to know that I whole-heartedly believe in the second coming of Jesus Christ, the rapture and the great judgment that follows just as taught in the Holy Scriptures. I want that to be the first statement I make today, this 22nd of May, 2011. Today I can say and sing and proclaim as boldly as ever, " Be prepared. Jesus is coming again.

Jesus Christ did not return yesterday as predicted by Harold Camping. While for most of us its just another beautiful Sunday morning. For another very sincere group of people, its proof of a hard lesson learned: Jesus meant it when he said in Matthew 24:36, "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels, nor the Son. But only the father."

This wasn't Camping first time to set a date for the return of Christ. His elaborate table of dates led him to such a conclusion back in the 90s. His more recent revised system led him to conclude that his new date, May 21st, would certainly be "Judgment Day" The web portal, "wecanknow.com," carried these words on its first page:

The word revival according to dictionary.com means a renewed use, acceptance of, or interest in. I was raised in a pentecostal church. It was always my experience that a revival was a time when many people (believers and non-believers) came together and encountered God. I have witnessed some revivals where the power of God was so strong that people appeared as if they were literally jumping out of their skin. Some people would flip over benches, speak in tongues, prophesy, cast out demons, etc.

 Revival can include all the above mentioned, however, it has to be more than that. From my personal experience, once the revival “died” down then it was back to life as usual. People who experience the power of God in such an extreme manner sometimes resort back to their old ways because they did not cultivate a relationship with God. In order for a garden to grow you have to pay attention to it. We have to work on our relationship in order for us to grow closer to God.

My desire is not only to experience God one time but to have an ongoing relationship with him