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Friday, July 29, 2005

Wanted: DEAD OR ALIVE (PREFERABLY DEAD)

COME JOIN ALMOST ALL OF THE OLD WEST IN THE QUEST OF REVENGE AGAINST THIS OLD GUNFIGHTER AT BROOKLANE BAPTIST CHURCH'S VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL THIS WED THUR AND FRIDAY

Big reward !!!


Do you know this scoundrel? Are you ready for some real western fun? Then come to our Vacation school this next week. Come and help us bring this polecat to justice.

THE LAODICEAN LIE

Check out this link by David Wilkerson



Revelation 3:14-22
And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write: These things saith the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the Creation of God;
I know thy works, that thou are neither cold nor hot: I would thou were cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot I will spue thee out of My mouth.
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
I counsel thee to buy of Me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me.
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with Me in My throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with My Father in His throne.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.


http://www.tscpulpitseries.org/english/undated/tslie.html

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Word to road crews: Tuscaloosa is over 1,000 miles thataway

ROLL TIDE
The new road signs at the corner of Routes 10 and 141 feature the numbers inside an outline of the great state of Alabama.
Problem is, the intersection is smack dab in downtown Easthampton, Mass.
In a commonwealth known for its confusing road signs and ''can't get there" complaints, this latest gaffe is among the strangest. Even more curiously, no one took much notice when the wayward signs went up about a week ago.
''We thought it was Connecticut turned upside down," said a woman who works for the contractor, A. Pereira Construction Co. of Ludlow.

''Actually, we didn't know what it was," said Roger Remy, the contractor's estimator, who ordered the signs from another company. ''We didn't really question it, because the numbers were correct."
He said his company is not sure where the fault lies for the mistake. In Massachusetts, the sign should be a simple black number on a white square or rectangle.
Mike Superson -- co-owner of Big E's Supermarket on Union Street, which sits next to the signs -- didn't spot the miscue, either.
''I looked at them 100 times since they put them up," he said yesterday. ''This is the first I've heard of this."
Joe Pipczynski, Easthampton's superintendent of public works, was alerted to the glitch by a Massachusetts Highway Department worker.
After talking with both the city and consulting engineers, Pipczynski said he believes the contractor simply opened the federal manual that guides what state highway signs should look like and sent the example of a state road sign to the sign maker. The manual shows a road sign for Route 21 in Alabama, with the state outline.
The error, though rare, is not unheard of, according to road sign aficionados at the Federal Highway Administration, who got a chuckle about Easthampton.
Pipczynski, however, is not amused. The contractor will not be paid until the signs are fixed, he said.
A. Pereira said the correct signs will be put up as soon as possible.
''There was a little bit of confusion," said Remy. ''It's kind of an oddball situation.
''But sometimes stuff happens. Confusion does happen sometimes. . . . I mean, I don't know. Who knows?"

Monday, July 25, 2005

BILL GOTHARD IN AUGUST


WE ARE HAVE A BILL GOTHARD BASIC SEMINAR IN AUGUST. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN COMING PLEASE GO TO THE FOLLOWING LINK BELOW, FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS AND WE'LL SEE YOU THERE!

http://brooklanebaptistchurch.com/Seminar.htm

FUN FOR MONDAY

PM SERVICE - WHAT A GREAT AUDIENCE

WE MAY NOT HAVE THE BIGGEST AUDIENCE BUT THEY REALL Y CAN'T GET ANY BETTER. FOR THE LAST 3 WEEKS I HAVE YET TO GET TO THE TEXT OF MY SERMON BUT EACH WEEK THEY HAVE REALLY ENJOYED THE "INTROS". I FOUND OUT TODAY THAT WE ARE ADDING 3 MORE PEOPLE TO THE FLOCK. OUTSTANDING ! WE HAD OUR FIRST REHEARSAL FOR "HELLBOUND RIDES IN THE SKY. IT SHOULD BE ALOT OF FUN. MY DESERT MAKER CAME THROUGH AGAIN. LOVE THAT CHEESECAKE. WE NEED TO MAKE SURE AND PRAY FOR BROTHER ANDERSON. HE WAS TIRED TONIGHT AND HE DIDN'T MAKE IT TO THE SERVICE. SORRY FOR ALL THE PERSONAL STUFF. UNTIL NEXT TIME.

Sunday, July 24, 2005

AM SERVICE - SPECIAL TREAT--- TWINS!

THIS AM WAS A SPECIAL BLESS WITH THE SMITHS VISITING WITH THEIR 10 DAY OLD TWINS. THE BOY'S NAME WAS BENJAMIN BUT I COULDN'T REMEMBER THE GIRLS NAME BUT THEY WERE A CUTE PAIR. MAY THEY BOTH GROW TO HAVE MANY CHILDREN AND MAY THEIR GRANDCHILDREN SIT AT THEIR ENEMIES GATES

THE MESSAGE WAS A CONTINUATION OF GETTING HELP FROM GOD WITH THE PAST FEW WEEKS BEING ON ASSURANCE OF SALVATION. HEBREWS 12 WAS THE FOCAL POINT WITH THE KNOWLES THAT WHOM THE LORD LOVETH HE CHASENETH.

WE ALSO PRESENTED MR SWEAT WITH HIS STUDY BIBLE FOR HAVING BEEN BAPTIZED A FEW WEEKS AGO AT AGE 83. WE ALSO GAVE HIM THE RIGHT HAND OF CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. IT STILL AMAZES ME AS TO THE NUMBER OF YOU CHILDREN THAT GOD HAS BLESSED US WITH AT BROOKLANE. AND IF YOU WOULD LIKE THO REALLY SEE THE AMAZING PART COME WATCH THEM ON SUNDAY NIGHT AND HOW THEY LOVE THE GREAT HYMNS OF THE FAITH.

Saturday, July 23, 2005

JUST HOW BIG WAS GOLIATH?


How would you have liked to tangle with this big boy ? (by the way this is a fake... but a good fake! )

HARRY POTTER DEUX


THIS ARTICLE WAS SO GOOD I JUST HAD TO POST THE WHOLE THING.


Harry Potter: Politically-Correct Paganism
By Jan Markell

Chaos reigned in my home town July 16 at midnight. Little kids roamed the streets in ecstasy as they had just purchased the new Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." Most were dressed like witches and wizards. They are addicted, but not to righteousness. And they just want to be like Harry and, if possible, attend Hogwarts' School of Witchcraft. When told it doesn't really exist, they are heartbroken.

Okay, so J.K. Rowlings is the second richest woman in England only preceded by the Queen because she can spin a good fantasy tale. There are "Christian Potter advocates" out there who will tell you that you can find God in Harry Potter. Entire denominations have endorsed him and respected Christian magazines as well. I have only a few paragraphs to persuade you differently so here goes.

Harry Potter is a wizard. Excuse me, but how many times does the Bible warn of us wizards, witches, witchcraft, sorcery, spells, incantations, and more? Aren't Christians to have no fellowship with darkness? (II Cor. 6:14-17) Rowlings says each book is getting darker and darker and she is right. He and his pals actually engage in between 75 and 100 practices forbidden in the Bible. Some are pretty gross, in fact. It's pretty tough to think about anything, "true, honorable, lovely, of good report, etc." as it says in Philippians 4:8 when one is focused on Potter gimmicks. He's almost always involved in occultic-type things including drinking blood and talking to the dead (necromancy). Oh, and Harry's "shed blood" has magical powers. Shouldn't that be a huge red flag?

You may be saying, "But this is a struggle of good vs. evil, so what do you expect?" You're right. It's "good" wizards and sorcerers battling "bad" wizards and sorcerers and in the end who wins--wizards and sorcerers! Christian Potter advocates need to grasp that this is not the way the Kingdom of God works. We want righteousness and Godliness to win, and in the end, it does! Read the last chapter of the Bible. And do you think that J.K. Rowlings, who doesn't understand the Bible any more than I understand the engine of my car or the guts of my computer, actually intended this to have true spiritual overtones?

So the Potter plot may be fantasy/fiction, but the setting and characters promote an occult-based worldview that kids accept as truth in normal life. What's cool in Harry's life is cool in their world, but Harry's world is surrounded and characterized by evil. Standards of behavior are distorted. Good and evil are just how you perceive it (situation ethics). There are no absolutes which is just what our post-modern culture needs. Harry is often rewarded for doing evil such as when he lies and cheats. Aren't there about a dozen red flags by now?

The Potter books and movies cleverly mask the evil concepts by presenting evil in a fantastic and alluring child's world. The biblically illiterate are fooled, and how sad when biblically literate parents are fooled and are just happy that finally their kids are reading.

Since organizations like the Pagan Federation of England state that they are recruiting hundreds of inquiring kids thanks to Potter, shouldn't that be a storm warning? In that hundreds of witchcraft Web sites are linked to Potter Web sites, does that sound an alarm?

Mysticism and love of the supernatural are thriving today even in some churches. Thus, the wonderfully mystical and emotionally awesome experience of Harry Potter fit right in. Today a lot of people crave the supernatural as well as "experiences" and even "signs and wonders." We're just far enough into the last days' apostasy so that it's actually spun out of control. J.K. Rowlings timed things well.

According to Gallup, at least one third of kids under age 18 have read a Harry Potter book or seen a movie. No, it won't lead every kid down the primrose path of witchcraft and Satanism but why should we give the devil an inch when he will want a yard or even a mile? This is a hugely serious matter. In the Bible, witchcraft was so forbidden that those who practiced it were frequently executed.

I have had some so-called "Christian Potter advocates" on my radio program. One told me that Jesus would use Potter as parables for children if He were around today, or would have in His day. I'm sorry, but Harry Potter is a different gospel. Deception and delusion abound here. He is a product of evil being called good (Isaiah 5:20). If Potter products are tools for the Kingdom, I have to ask, which Kingdom? Since author J.K. Rowlings promised to make each episode darker (and has done so), I hardly think she had in mind the Kingdom of God.

(Jan Markell is founder and president of Olive Tree Ministries, Inc. She has authored eight Christian books with the major Christian publishing houses. She has a talk radio program out of Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN heard in other parts of the country as well. For more information, her e-alert sign-up, or free, print newsletter, visit her Web site, http://www.olivetreeviews.org/.)

One step closer


GOP star to get chip implant

By clicking on the aboved link, you can follow up on an article on Tommy Thompson and the implanted chip. this brings to mind two events in my life. The first was a sermon 30 years ago in which evangelist Ron Comfort explained in detail how the Anti Christ would implant a mark on either the hand or forehead ( REV 13) and a person would be required to have their hand scanned ad that mark would be connected to their bank account.During the time known as the great tribulation we would have a cashless society I marveled as to how that could ever be possible. Next was 20 years ago at a gas station when it was proudly announced on the gas pumps how that in only a few years your credit card ( soon to be debit card) would be directly connected to your bank account and that you could be cash free !! Now we are truly one step away from the evangelist's prediction from the book of Revelation coming true. From what is said in the article we can expect years of conditioning as to how it is "normal" to have a chip. we can all see how we have converted to the debit cards and a cashless society with no force put upon us. some might say that they would never allow a chip or mak to be put on their body. That may be true for now but as the stigma for body marks ( have you noticed how tattoos are acceptable now?) and chip and implants goes away we will all be faced with that choice. I am so glad that current true believers will not have to make that choice during the reign of the future Antichrist.


Rev 13:18
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number [is] Six hundred threescore [and] six.

Friday, July 22, 2005

Wednesday night service - a special treat

WED July 20, 2005

Wow what a good crowd for our Wed night service. We have several families that haven't been here in a while . It has been special having the Huddlestons back .. Bro. Woody still has that great handshake. Bro Fred was very upbeat. We still feel for his loss of Mrs Jordan but he seems dertermined to keep on for God till he comes. the message was very good on I Peter but what is the high point of the service is the Prayer time. at Brooklane we still dare to raise up old fashion prayers on "Prayer meeting Night"What a blessing it was to see families coming together to prayer for our church family and friends. The Smith girls gave us a special mesage in song and it was such fellowship the we literally had to "run em off"

starting next Wed the thursday night ROMANS class is moving to Wed after prayer meeting from 745 til 900pm.

Worlds ugliest dog - 3 years running !!!

Harry Potter

Christianity is probably split on the issue of Harry Potter and I know that the biggest argument for the books are that they " get the children to read". The world of the occult is a very seductive one that tries to seduce the christian. I Timothy 4 teaches that in the last days that seducing spirits will draw some away from the Faith. I would suppose the the drawing away will be a slow methodical pulling of the spirit. With each new Potter book the story line gets darker and darker. I guess my question to the Christian that is caught up in Harry Potter: Where is the Christ of the Scriptures portrayed in the text? the following link gives a very concise analysis of the newest book :

07/22/2005: Harry Potter: The Danger of Inviting Evil Spirits?

A great homecoming

Over the past few years we have been able to have a couple of great homecomings. It is always a blessing to see loved ones who have been gone for many years. This past week we witnessed a homecoming to glory. Mrs. Jordan passed over in to the glorious presence of her Savior and Lord. Bro. Harter commented during the sermon how that this was an easy funeral to perform. How much did it impress one of how with great honor did they bury the great Kings of Judah in special places of honor. We will miss you Mrs Jordan. We will see you in the morning !

Vacation Bible School - Welcome to "Brooklane" : where bad shots die quickly


Are you ready to enter a town where the difference between life and death may be determined by the quickest draw? Come if you dare to Brooklane Baptist Churches' Vacation Bible school and witness the return of the "Old Gun fighter" who has spent the life of a hired gun and now he has been confronted with a final warning from God: Change you ways or join the hell bound riders in the sky. Dress up in your western best and join us August 3,4, and 5

Welcome to Brooklane

We are happy to have you visit our website . We hope that you will make it your second home. We hope to use this blog to keep friends and family up to date on happenings. We may just comment on things when needed. Please feel free to comment and send us a line .... Also come visit us !!!!