Thanks for the tapes [Tapes O’ The Month on Romans]. Perfect timing as I look forward to listening to them on vacation next week during long drives in the car.
I hope you know what a truly phenomenal blessing you have been in my life. Your message has brought hope to my dry and weary heart.
Please mail seminar brochures as soon as available as I want to invite several others. I am very anxious for July 29th.
Please remember to take my $25 donation from my Visa each month.
R.H.
Got your tapes of the month last week, I believe. I think it is interesting you teach a lot like my father did, whom I always blamed for “causing me to be the way I am”. I realize that is a deception now. But I didn’t listen to my father much because he didn’t seem to have much more than the head theology. But your teaching is very similar.
Anyway, I am finally getting it that the righteousness that I have has been put on me by Christ. I think I have always somehow thought that I was somehow going to finally arrive at a place someday that I would be good and God would be impressed. I always thought that was what Galatians 5 was all about…that if somehow I could get to a certain level then I would quit being gay and quit being angry.
Your February tape is especially good in helping me see that the Law was not something that God actually wanted us to accomplish but was given to show that we never could find goodness in ourselves apart from Christ. I love that. I am beginning to also understand the dying to our flesh thing. Keep it up, I am keeping on listening. Will send another gift as I can. God bless. Thanks for sharing your gift of teaching with us. There really aren’t too many out there that get this are there?
J.W.C.
My Dad died June 11 in upstate New York. The most wonderful news is that on June 9th he turned his life over to Jesus as Lord and Savior. Rejoice with me in God’s great mercy and grace! I loved my father even though he was a selfish and evil man. I say this only because it makes God’s mercy appear the real miracle in our lives!! God bless you!
S.B.
Thank you for your faithful ministry. Since your teaching at Cherry Hills Community Church six years ago, I have shared all your tape series with friends and families across the USA. God has blessed many through your ministry. I will continue to uplift you in prayer, though I must inform you that I will not be supporting your ministry financially, at least for a while. God has laid a new outreach in my path which now tugs at my heart and purse strings. I trust God will raise up others in my place in your ministry and I know you will feel His blessing. My prayers are with you. In Christ,
H.S.
It is not without a bitter taste in my mouth that I’m writing to you. But we’ll have to stop our financial partnership for your so efficient and good ministry, but we’ll never stop our spiritual partnership with you!…
This has nothing to do with you but rather with our own budget to reconsider, as this world is “pressing” upon us…but as soon as we can help you again, we will…In the meantime we’ll pray that you’ll receive from someone else, as we are quitting, the multiplication of what we are stopping to give…I will ask the Lord financial prosperity for you…as we are…declaring and expecting financial prosperity for us…in Jesus name!…
Thank you for your kindness, for your vision, for sharing your experiences and your enlightenment…Thank God for all His grace and goodness towards us. With much love and appreciation,
C.S.
Switzerland
Your tapes have arrived and I find them very enlightening. Thank you. However, the tape I listen to most is The Romantic Illusion. Each time the truth is more apparent.
The church I attend—a nearby Lutheran—embraces homosexuals and their lifestyle, and preaches that anyone rejecting these poor souls are not authentic Christians, but hypocrites.
Why do I attend this church? Because it is in the neighborhood and they have several ministries that I think are important. They have space that is used by the chronically mentally ill. They have a very active program for senior citizens. And they have space for meal preparation for people with A.I.D.S. And they have an apartment building for the elderly and disabled.
So, even though I disagree with their stance on the gay lifestyle, they more than make up for this by their other programs.
But as a former active homosexual, I always remind myself that the Bible is abundantly clear in its teachings. And I go back and listen to your tape, The Romantic Illusion. Homosexuality is closer to the practice of incest than real sexuality—and that’s why it stirs up so much guilt, shame and anger. This was so true for me in all my relationships (sexual) with other women.
The battle is not over—as I continue to struggle with my attractions to other women. But, thank God, your ministry has provided enough insight to keep me on the right path.
Thanks again. My monthly contribution is enclosed.
In Christ,
R.S.