anyone else smell false teacher?

Gloria Copeland - wife to famous Word-Faith heretic Kenneth Copeland gave a message that I heard recently (the message isn't recent - I just heard it recently) that Christians are "supposed" to control the weather, by rebuking tornadoes and hurricanes, and dissipating storm clouds; Just like she has seen done and has done herself.

Now Gloria, I grew up in Joplin, MO (you may have heard of the Gigantic Tornado that tore through town) and I was just wondering why you didn't bother to save my loved ones (my hometown) from the 150 dead, nearly 7,000 homes destroyed, 18,000 cars totaled and $3 billion in damages caused by a storm that you as a Word-Faith heretic had complete control over? I was just curious, where you and Kenneth too busy spending old folks retirement money to help us? Drop me a line; I'd love to hear about it.

storyline of the bible

As Dorothy Sayers has said, the story of the Bible is so amazing that to not be interested is to not understand exactly what God has done in history. It is to not understand that from the beginning of Genesis to the end of Revelation, the entire Bible focuses on Jesus, and what Jesus-as God-was going to do to save mankind from God's wrath. It is a true story of a God, as C. S. Lewis says, who is not safe, but is good. It is a story of us being saved from God by God.

Dorothy Sayers: Mystery writer and apologist

She was summarizing a story others had criticized as dull (the Bible): "So that is the outline of the official story—the talk of the time when God was the underdog and got beaten, when He submitted to the conditions He had laid down and became a man like the men He had made, and the men He had made broke Him and killed Him."

As if she hadn't already made the point, Dorothy Sayers continued: "This is the dogma we find so dull—this terrifying drama of which God is the victim and hero."

You can almost hear the pause after the period; then she concludes, "If this is dull, then what, in Heaven's name, is worthy to be called exciting?"

Sayers never found Christianity, nor life itself, dull. This type of passionate argument, usually accompanied by pointed humor, was typical for Sayers, as was passionate living. It seemed no matter what she put her hand to, it became a success; we can be thankful that Christian apologetics was one of her many passions.

Theodore Cuyler

After a little while - you will see me! John 16:17

Oh the infinite sweep of that glorious transition! A few years here in a poor dwelling, whose rent it is hard to pay - and then infinite ages in the palace of the King of kings! Here a scanty table and course clothing - and yonder a robe of resplendent light at the marriage supper of the Lamb! Let this blissful thought put new courage into your soul, and fresh sunshine into your countenance!

That disease which no earthly physician can cure - will soon be cured by your Divine Physician, who by the touch of His messenger death, will cure you in an instant, and bring you into the perfect health of Heaven! You will exchange this weary bed of pain - for that crystal air in which none shall ever say, "I am sick;" neither shall there be any more pain.

Not only to the sick and to the poverty - stricken children of God, do these tender words of our Redeemer bring solace. Let these words bring a healing balm to hearts that are smarting under unkindness, or wounded by neglect, or pining under privations, or bleeding under sharp bereavements. I offer them as a sedative to all sorrows - and a solace under all sharp afflictions. "After a little while - you will see Me!" The sight of Him shall wipe out all the memories of the darkest hours through which you made your way through this wilderness world - to mansions of glory!

The 16 False (or Anti-) Disciples

Acts 13:9-10

Judas Iscariot
Bob Rell
Patricia King
Brian McLaren
Rick Warren
Joel Osteen
Harold Camping
William Tapley
Steven Fertick
Sid Roth
Bishop John Spong
NT Wright
Doug Pagget
Tony Jones
Perry Nobel
almost forgot 
Ed Young, Jr

9 But Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him 10 and said, “You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?

The 12 Actual Disciples

Matthew
John - son of Zebedee
Peter/Simon
Andrew
James - son of Zebedee
Philip
Bartholomew - son of Talemai
Thomas
James - son of Alphaeus
Thaddeus
Simon - the Zealot
Matthias

Tullian Tchividjian

The Hard work in Christianity is more fully realizing the finished work Christ accomplished in Salvation.