How to be a Help to Your Church ~ #3

How to be a Helpful to Your Church
I came across some helpful information written by Dr. Dale A. Robbins regarding helping your church. So I will be posting it here in this blog- spot over the course of the next week or so.
I liked it so much that I shared it with my church already. There are 8 segments to what Dr. Robbins wrote about this and we will include all 8 of them in our looking at church helps

3. Pray for your church, it's pastors and leaders:

The Apostle Paul explained that it is the duty of the Christians to pray for all who are in authority, especially those in spiritual authority. "... exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence." (I Timothy 2:1-2)Your church leaders are on the cutting edge of the battle with Satan, and will face temptations and spiritual conflict unlike anything you could imagine.

The Devil knows that if he can topple a spiritual leader or get him discouraged enough to quit, it will have a domino effect on the rest of the church. You can be a tremendous help by praying fervently for your church, and especially for the pastor and his family.

It is especially helpful that you attend the church prayer meetings, and you can come into agreement with others. And, where the pastors and church leaders can see and feel your prayer support for them, and the church. God promised special strength through the combined prayer of His children.

"Again I say unto you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven." (Matthew 18:19)

My additional comment:
Prayer is our connection and bond to God and to each other in the harvesting of souls for the Lord. We must first agree with Him and His Word and then with each other to accomplish God's will where we are at.

Be blessed of the Lord

Pastor Kitner

How to be a Helpful to Your Church installment #2

2. Commit yourself to the Lord and your brethren

How to be a Helpful to Your Church
I came across some helpful information written by Dr. Dale A. Robbins regarding helping your church. So I will be posting it here in this blog- spot over the course of the next week or so.
I liked it so much that I shared it with my church already. There are 8 segments to what Dr. Robbins wrote about this and we will include all 8 of them in our looking at church helps

The Bible teaches that all the desires of God are condensed into only two cardinal commandments that Jesus gave to His followers. "He said, You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself." (Luke 10:27)
By clothing ourselves in God's love, we help the church to reinforce this objective for every believer, and we also help to eliminate the elements of conflict and division which can hinder the unity of the church. "...beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace." (Ephesians 4:1-3)

How to be a Helpful to Your Church

I came across some helpful information written by Dr. Dale A. Robbins regarding helping your church. So I will be posting it here in this blog spot over the course of the next week or so.
I liked it so much that I shared it with my church already. There are 8 segments to what Dr. Robbins wrote about this and we will include all 8 of them in our looking at church helps.

1. Be faithful to attend and participate.
Commit yourself to the church And let them know they can count on you. Obviously You can't be of much help if you don't show up or take part. Some people underestimate their value of simply being present. Joining together with others adds to their encouragement. And, it encourages the pastor and ministries leaders who have prayed and prepared all week to minister to you. Hebrews 10:24-25. It helps you'd pastor and the whole church for you to come faithfully, and start on time. And don't merely sit there like a bump on a log. Be friendly, put a smile on your face, and enter into worship with singing and thanksgiving.
Dr Robbins eve says, you can utter an audible Amen or two when the pastor makes avoid point. Go ahead, it'll make his day!

This is some good advice from a pastors point of view and makes sense if one just thinks about how they would like it if they were a pastor or even another person in the sanctuary.

Stop back for the next installment and collect all 8 of them.

Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner

Right Questions! - click here

I am reading about the last 100 years of the church "The Charismatic Century" by Jack Hayford and S. David Moore. I understand the importance of history but something struck me in the reading of it all. Are we in the looking into history asking the right questions and answering the right questions in the writing of all the books? Azusa Street and the move of God there was a key to the Pentecostal "move" in our country. I look at the events as important for sure but I also look at the result in the church and in the lives of men as well. Why is it that out of a mighty "move" of God men still could not meet, fellowship, eat or work togethe?. The church did not address the matters of the heart with the committment to the Lord that the early church and it's leaders had. Why is there still a black church and a white church and a Korean church etc.? There is only one church and that is the one Jesus is building and it knows no boundaries or the politics of men.
The right questions must be approached by the church, the body of Christ today. Is the Gospel changing men's hearts to conform them into the image of God's dear Son or is it in name only Christianity? Jesus Christ is coming back for a church, a "bride" that is without spot. Or wrinkle. I have heard a lot of different excuses about why the church is like it is but as a pastor I see a lack of committment to the Lord and the kingdom of God by church members. It seems like Romans 12:1-2 have lost their meaning as the church has endevored to be camoflauged in this world.
Politics have become the ruling factor in the church and not the leading of the Holy Spirit through prayer and fastings as in Acts 13.
The body of Christ has a directive to come out from among them and be ya seperate and we as God's people need to do that today?

Ask Right Questions church!

Be blessed
Pastor Kitner

The Week After

In this week after my first major dose of CHEMO I have experienced some fatigue that comes on you unexpectedly. My appetite is not bad but I have experienced some nauzea and some diarreha. I have to dring a lot of water and other liquids so I stay hydrated. Coffe, I found out actually makes you dehydrated because of the caffene in it.
I try to stay busy and study lots during this time so I have something good from the Lord for Sunday morning. God is good - all the time.
If you have cancer too, tell me how you are coping with it and the problems of your life because of it. I would like opportunity to pray with you.

Be Blessed
Pastor Kitner
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Commentary on the Pledge of Allegiance by Red Skelton

Commentary on the Pledge of Allegiance
by Red Skelton

As a schoolboy, one of Red Skelton's teachers explained the words and meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance to his class. Skelton later wrote down, and eventually recorded, his recollection of this lecture. It is followed by an observation of his own.

I - - Me; an individual; a committee of one.
Pledge - - Dedicate all of my worldly goods to give without self-pity.

Allegiance - - My love and my devotion.

To the Flag - - Our standard; Old Glory ; a symbol of Freedom; wherever she waves there is respect, because your loyalty has given her a dignity that shouts, Freedom is everybody's job.

United - - That means that we have all come together.

States - - Individual communities that have united into forty-eight great states. Forty-eight individual communities with pride and dignity and purpose. All divided with imaginary boundaries, yet united to a common purpose, and that is love for country.

And to the Republic - - Republic--a state in which sovereign power is invested in representatives chosen by the people to govern. And government is the people; and it's from the people to the leaders, not from the leaders to the people.

For which it stands

One Nation - - One Nation--meaning, so blessed by God.

Indivisible - - Incapable of being divided.

With Liberty - - Which is Freedom; the right of power to live one's own life, without threats, fear, or some sort of retaliation.

And Justice - - The principle, or qualities, of dealing fairly with others.

For All - - For All--which means, boys and girls, it's as much your country as it is mine.


And now, boys and girls, let me hear you recite the Pledge of Allegiance:
I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic, for which it stands; one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country, and two words have been added to the Pledge of Allegiance: Under God. Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer, and that would be eliminated from schools, too?
Red Skelton