Resurrection – life necessary

Glamour Shots in the Plaza Bonita Shopping Mall in National City, California, offered a
Mother’s Day special one year. “Can I give her a Mother’s Day to remember?”, the ad
read. “Yes, you can.”
Glamour Shots gave good ol’ Mom a new face fashioned by professional photographers
and make-up artists. (The Oprah Winfrey show recently bestowed such a paint-over on
an Encinitas, California resident. Coast News, January 22, 2010) From her existing
features they created dramatic changes that pleased the eye. It certainly proved the value
of paint over old surfaces.
That stirred a thought: Jesus does for our soul in conversion what Glamour Shots does
for the human face, but with significant differences. He uses MAKE-OVER, not MAKEUP,
to achieve our spirit’s renewal. The Holy Spirit, not liquids and creams and clever
photography, rebuilds us in Christ’s image. The photography may, for an instant, capture
a graceful glance lost in other facial contortions, but the Holy Spirit captures all that’s
pleasant and positive about us. And his changes last a lifetime, not hours; for experience
by experience in real life, not from a staged performance in a studio with lights adjusted
to a romantic instant and people of camera-skill freezing the instant good ol’ Mom might
seldom or ever have again.
Glamour Shots makes us what we usually are not; Jesus what we can always be. They
change us into something we wish we could keep; he into something we can’t ever lose.
They turn human reality into illusion; he turns human potential into divine realities. They
do it to show a better side of self; he to make a show-window of his Glory, Grace and
Truth. They paint or brush on what soap and water remove; he penetrates us to saturation
with holiness impervious to contamination. Under Glamour Shots make-up exists
someone who may not be pleasant once it’s removed. In Christ’s make-over exists a
permanent winsomeness.
Why be MADE-UP when we can be MADE-OVER? Why settle for what will only
amuse our friends when Christ gives what astonishes them? Why offer only what WE
ARE when Christ reveals through us what HE IS? Why tolerate a momentary freedom
from normal appearance when Christ wants to give us an entirely new life now and,
ultimately, an incredibly new body to house it?

Illustrations, courtesy of Ugly Dog Productions.
Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner

Are you Asleep in the Light - click here

Keith Green was and is still a voice in the wilderness crying out for all to make straight the way of the Lord. Check out the YOUTUBE Video.
His song messages are for those who hear to repent... Wow now that's a new concept in this day and time...BUT not really... Repentence is a key to an awakening and a revival as well. Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand. Be real in your walk with the Lord. Make a declaration for such. I did and it goes this way:
"As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!"

Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner

Thanks Chuck King for his post of the video on his Face Book page.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/charlesjking?ref=nf

The key that opens the door----

Change your life by changing your mind."Metanoia"(Repentance) is THE key that opens the door to freedom from ur past.Rom 12:1-2

RickWarren

Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner

No Personal Salvation says Episcopal Bishop??? Click here

The Word of God says that if you call on the name of the Lord believing in your heart that God raised Jesus up from the dead - confessing this with your mouth, that salvation is yours.
I agree just saying a set of words in the form of a prayer doesn't save you.. it must be connected with a heart of belief and repentence.

Romans 6:22 - 7:1 (KJV) 22But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. 23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 10:6 - 13 (NIV) 6But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’£” (that is, to bring Christ down) 7“or ‘Who will descend into the deep?’£” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,”£ that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming: 9That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. 11As the Scripture says, “Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”£ 12For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”


Acts 2:38 - 3:1 (NIV) 38Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.” 40With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.” 41Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day. 42They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. 44All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. 46Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

1 John 5:10 - 13 (KJV) 10He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. 11And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. 13These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

If the Episcopal Bishop is right then Peter, Paul and John were wrong. -- I'll stick with Peter, Paul and John on this one. How about you?

Blessings on Ya!
Pastor Kitner

Repentence

Click on the word repentence above and see the scriptures that are listed there concerning repentence. Be a doer of the Word and not a hearer only.

Blessings on Ya1!
Pastor Kitner