My Crazy Faith

For some "fun" songs from my younger years: "Some Carman Songs for Halloween" And here is a bunch of links about Spiritual Warfare, from my post called "War Rooms, Praying Scripture, and Spiritual Warfare": I strongly believe that there are angels and demons.  That prayer matters.  That there is a spiritual battle going on around us all the time ... and that we need to get involved in it, actively and consciously.  (Something I haven't been doing lately.)   Regardless of if we want it or not, we are constantly facing spiritual battles.  But if we don't acknowledge them - if we stick our head in the sand and refuse to get involved, to put on our spiritual armor, to use the spiritual weapons that are available to us - we open ourselves up to deceptions, to defeat, to being very vulnerable to the strategies and attacks of the evil one. What I have done here is compile a list of posts on spiritual warfare, on praying Scripture, and on creating a War Ro

  A 3 1/2-minute encouraging (or alarming) video:    "It's Friday, But Sunday's a Comin'"   (Apparently, that video was removed, so  try this one   or   this one .   Or google the title to find the sermon clip by preacher S.M. Lockridge.) For believers: "Hang in there, it's almost Sunday!" For non-believers: "Take warning: It's almost Sunday!"  (See  this post  and  this post )

I know many Christians won't agree, but this is an issue I feel very strongly about.  So allow me to get up on my soapbox and tell you why I think no Christian should participate in yoga: Is Yoga OK for Christians? (Here's a hint: It's not!) I know this isn't exactly Halloween-related, but it is demon-worship related.  So it fits right in with my "Halloween" posts.

Link to my post  "Should Christians Watch Horror Movies?" Of course, this is just my opinion, and I don't expect everyone to agree with me.

Another "Halloween" post I wrote: "Three Guidelines for Christians Regarding Halloween"

We just got the first snow of the year!  (I love snow.)  And so to celebrate this moment and to counter Halloween (I hate Halloween), enjoy this excellent, little-known Christmas song: Hallelujah Christmas   (Cloverton)

Since Halloween is coming up, I am going to post links to some of my previous "Halloween" posts, standard ones that I would like to share every year, starting with: "In 'Honor' of Halloween: My Story of Demonic Harassment."  

I've heard the story of Cliff before.  And every time I hear it, my eyes fill with tears.  He's a living illustration for us all about walking in faith through the dark times, about how we all - no matter how tired and broken-down we feel - can reach victory if we just keep going . How to Keep Going When It's All Too Much Right Now by Ann Voskamp 

I love this! Ohio Sheriff Offers to Help Celebrities Leave the U.S. If Trump Wins - On One Condition: "You Can't Come Back" Thank you, Sheriff Rick Jones, for saying what a lot of us have wanted to say to those celebrities who threaten to leave the U.S. if Trump wins (and who threatened last election).   I applaud you, and I add my message to those celebrities (and anyone else) who think they have the right to demand that everything be their way or who threaten to move from the country if they don't get their way:  "Good ... leave!  We don't want your snotty, cry-baby whining here anyway!  We don't want your arrogant attitudes where you think you're better than all of us lowly, common folk.  We don't want you preaching to us about how we should think, how we should vote, what our values should be, etc., especially when you contribute to some of the most wretched, immoral, godless filth in entertainment and live it out in your own lives too.   Who

Franklin Graham has called for a day of prayer and fasting tomorrow, October 25, for all believers to call on God for His help with the upcoming election.  I hope all believers will humble themselves before God, calling on Him for His help not just with the election but with everything -  the moral condition of our country, the breakdown of our society, the fear that haunts us all, the brokenness all around us as we humans implode and race towards wickedness and destruction, etc.  Everything is going wrong all over the place, and we need more than ourselves to fix it.  We need God.   Anyway, as I was reading Psalm 5 this morning, I realized what a fitting prayer it is for our country, our world, right now.  And so I am writing it here, altered slightly to be a prayer from all believers.   Sadly, I think we are past the point of repair.  I think our world has broken down so much that the only real hope left, unless God chooses to intervene wildly and miraculously, is that Jesus comes

I  found a lot more names to add to my list of known Calvinists (found in my various  "How to Tell if a Church, Pastor, or Website is Calvinist"  posts).  But instead of adding this huge list to all those posts, I am going to put it here, and I'll just provide a link on those posts to this one.  [FYI: I added a note at the bottom of this post on May 5, 2021.] So here it is, a "master list" of known Calvinists to help you be careful and discerning about who you listen to and where you get your theology from.  There are plenty more Calvinists out there, but these are just the names that I ran across the most.   These are either definite, self-professed Calvinists or "most likely Calvinist," in my estimation.  (I haven't heard of most of them, but it's good to know their theology before I do.)   After finding these names in various places online, I looked up each person to see if they are Calvinist.  If they did not self-identify as a Calvinist, I