“Do everything you do to the glory of the One who made you
Cause He made you to do
Every little thing that you do to bring a smile to His face
And tell the story of grace
With every move that you make
And every little thing you do ”
(Steven Curtis Chapman)

*Twas the month before Christmas*

*When all through our land,* *Not a Christian was praying**Nor taking a stand.* *See the PC Police had taken

away,**The reason for Christmas – no one could say.* *The children were told by their schools not to sing,*

*About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.* *It might hurt people’s feelings, the teachers would

say* * December 25th is just a ‘ Holiday ‘.* *Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit*

*Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it!* *CDs from Madonna, an X BOX, an I-pod**Something was

changing, something quite odd! * *Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa* *In hopes to sell books by

Franken & Fonda.* *As Targets were hanging their trees upside down* * At Lowe’s the word Christmas – was

no where to be found.* *At K-Mart and Staples and Penny’s and Sears* *You won’t hear the word Christmas;

it won’t touch your ears.* *Inclusive, sensitive, Di-ver-si-ty* *Are words that were used to intimidate me.*

*Now Daschle, NowDarden, Now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzen* *On Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton !* *At

the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatter* *To eliminate Jesus, in all public matter.* *And we spoke

not a word, as they took away our faith* * Forbidden to speak of salvation and grace* *The true Gift of

Christmas was exchanged and discarded* *The reason for the season, stopped before it started.* *So as you

celebrate ‘Winter Break’ under your ‘Dream Tree’**Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me.* *Choose your

words carefully, choose what you say*

*Shout MERRY CHRISTMAS ,
not Happy Holiday !

Join us for Rock-In 2009 Friday Night 8pm November 27th 2009- November 28th 2009 at Shiloh Ministries in Mercer, PA. starts at 7pm and goes til 8am. Bands that will be there Anvah and Blood Stained Tears! Be there and bring your friends!!

I really want you guys to get this. I am not trying to force this down anyones throat cause that is not what I am about. I care about you guys believe it or not, and it makes me so sad to see and hear what I see and hear, and this coming from blood bought, redeemed, saved, Christian youth kids. You are the future of the United States, and you represent the future Christians of the United States. You guys have such a powerful anointing on you, it’s not even funny, and the Devil is trying soo hard to blind you guys so that you can’t see this. You guys are FEARFULLY and WONDERFULLY made. I want you now to read this passage, with all this in mind. May the Lord speak to your heart, soul, mind and spirit through this, and I love you guys .

Romans 1:18-32 (New International Version)

God’s Wrath Against Mankind

18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God,(reading and memorizing the Bible) he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

Hmm… Sound familiar? I am sure that all of you can relate to this passage in one way or another, myself included. God wants us to be close to Him. To love Him, just like He loves us. He doesn’t want you to live a life that doesn’t glorify Him, because He knows that you can be so much better, and that you were NOT created to be evil! That is right. You were NOT created sinful. You were created “good.” In fact, read the book of Genesis, and you will find that when God created man and woman he called them “good.” What makes us “bad” is us giving in to sin. We are NOT born with sin in our hearts. We learn sin, and then we live what we learn. Remember my little thing I said about “input output”? You guys laughed cause yea, it was corny but, it is the truth! What we put into our minds by what we listen to, etc. is what we will live. So… what are you doing with your life? Are you living to please God, or man? Just some things to think about… Love you guys

Pastor Erin