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• New Vido clip of Grace on my Charity Website.
  by TREVOR IRWIN

  Thank you so much freinds for you encouragement and support. God bless you as you continue to Pray for Grace and the twins. I have Upload…

  Thank you so much freinds for you encouragement and support. God bless you as you continue to Pray for Grace and the twins. I have Uploaded a short video clip of Grace unto Philadelphia Mission Charity Site. It is a scene where Grace is sick. I have given much thought to if i should show this or not. It shows the terrible effects Intestinal worms has on a child. Please do let me know what you think. If its to strong and you think it is, I will remove it. I need your feedback please. Please Bmail others and let them know also. The second video is all the Children’s portraits, set to music. I do hope you like it. keep on Praying Friends, PRAYER CHANGES ALL THINGS! Trevor.

• Thank you so much for the feature Living Christianity Group !
  by bamagirl38

  Thank you so much for featuring our collaborated piece, The Lord Is My Shepherd ! Myself, as well as John, are very grateful ! Thanks aga…

  Thank you so much for featuring our collaborated piece, The Lord Is My Shepherd ! Myself, as well as John, are very grateful ! Thanks again and GOD BLESS ! / Bonita

• Won challenge - Thank you Living Christianity group hosts
  by amarica

  I am really happy to announce that Let There Be a Firmament...

  I am really happy to announce that Let There Be a Firmament was voted the most popular entry in the Living Christianity group challenge THANK YOU ALL WHO VOTED FOR ME....big kisses to you all!!!!!!! Thank you Olga, EAWilliams, Kenny Gulley Jr., martin steinbr…, and Dave Law HOSTS of the Living Christianity group Big hugzzzzzzzzzz xxxx Ann (amarica)

• Featured in the Living Christianity group - Thank you Hosts
  by amarica

  I am very happy to say thank you to Olga , EAWilliams...

  I am very happy to say thank you to Olga , EAWilliams , Kenny Gulley Jr. , Martin Steinbrugger and Dave Law HOSTS of the Living Christianity group for featuring my work Lament of an unborn child Thank you again for this sweet honor. Hugzzzzzzzzzzz / xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Ann

• Featured member of the Living Christianity group - Thank you Hosts
  by amarica

  Thank you Olga, EAWilliams, Kenny Gulley Jr., Martin Steinbrugger and Dave Law, HOSTS of the Living Christianity group...

  Thank you Olga, EAWilliams, Kenny Gulley Jr., Martin Steinbrugger and Dave Law, HOSTS of the Living Christianity group for featuring me as a “featured member” this week. It is a great joy to be honored by recognition in the wonderful group. Big hugzzzzzzzzzz xxxx Ann (amarica)

• my letter to pilgrim re: 'living christianity'
  by citizen "KHAN"

  i decided to post my letter to pilgrim as i believe the topics in hand are serious enough to demand public debate. if you wish to join in…

  i decided to post my letter to pilgrim as i believe the topics in hand are serious enough to demand public debate. if you wish to join in, please have the decency to read the entri text thoroughly, and not to skim-read or jump to the end halfway through. thankyou. mister pilgrim, i’m writing to you as a representative of big bubble, as it has been you in the past that i have in the main had communication with. i’m not normally one to take issue, but i’m afraid i have an issue. i recently tried to join a group called ‘living christianity’. they kicked me off. they didn’t even write to tell me why, i think i lasted four minutes. slightly put out, i tried to engage the moderators in dialogue, both through bubble mail and an open letter- again no reply, no explanation. the thing that made me rather angry was that i was subjected to clear prejudice. i hadn’t even submitted any work. they just decided they didn’t like me. any way you look at that, it’s just plain wrong. thus my issue with the self appointed leaders of this expression of christianity is twofold- i understand that the general tone of my output is probably not to their taste, but they could have said- ‘welcome rabbitollah; although we welcome your input with the warmest of hearts, we do feel obliged to warn you that the general tone of your output is not to our liking, and we’d basically like our group to be kept free of anything that might be considered either offensive, or not really suitable for kids- we’re a family oriented group of guys, and though we appreciate the fifth amendment and all that, we’d like to keep things clean! in short, to use your own language, we’re basically into ‘bumper stickers’, and one offensive word and you’re out. we look forward to your contribution…..’ and the rules would have been set. but no. they just blanked me. i bubble mailed the group moderators- no reply. no explanation. not even an acknowedgement of communication. that- in my book is not on, regardless of sensibilities. i joined again., three minutes later, kicked out again. this ‘closed book’ nature alerted my second concern was seeded by this response. if i remember correctly, redbubble is an artistic community (although at times it does seem to resemble an online asyslum for the insane involved in some sort of creative therapy)- i believe religious belief is as valid a binding interest for a group as ‘llamas’ or ‘fugilicious’, but the wholesale- ‘my way or the highway’ attitude shown does suggest a tone of religious bigotory- i began to think… if i was a roman catholic and started posting shit hot shots of the pope on the phone, would they allow them? is it the ‘right kind’ of christianity? oh, hang on a minute, we’re already not judging on ‘artistic criteteria- we’re judging on affiliation to a narrow channel of belief- what the fuck has that got to do with making pretty pictures out of pixels….?’ basically what it looks like is a closed private online church, and the continued lack of communication from it’s leaders, doesn’t instill one with confidence to the contrary. the group is called ‘living christianity’. not ‘living evangelicism’, or ‘half dead protestantism’. and christianity is big. if it was an islamic group run by sunnis, who were rejecting the membership of shi’ia, would that be tolerated? (in this respect i regard myself somewhat as a sufi, finding the concepts of art, beauty, mysticism and universal love at the heart of god, and god to be found in my heart) as it happens i believe in jesus. although my belief’s aren’t entirely conformist with any single branch of popular church, i was baptised into the orthodox faith (the oldest, most mystrical and unadulterated of the popular variants), i own a crucifix, more than one book on jesus, and like to get stoned and go to ancient churches and monastaries pretty to meditate. i have a wide interest in religious art, and am fascinated by the influence of spirituality in the history of art as a whole, though not so much by bumper stickers. however- why the hell am i defending my credentials as a christian? do i need to be a christian to join the living christianity group? what’s next? groups for white people? groups for black people? surely it is the theme or topic of the art displayed in the group that merits inclusion, not that you belong to this or that religion, denomination, race etc. could i not join the ‘adelaide’ group if i wanted to post pictures of adelaide, just becasue i live, for instance, in melbourne? i will not patronise you by continuing. you clearly know what i’m talking about. thus i would be interested to know bigbubble’s policy on the use of groups primarily for progeneration of specific political or religious attitudes, as opposed to theme or topic specific art- for thus it would appear that this is exactly what this particular group is involved in, consciously or not- and i’m not entirely sure that’s healthy, opn any level in my opinion, if the group moderators are autonomous in this respect, and have the final word in the respect of who and who cannot join their group without having to justify their decisions (as this group has done) then this group in partuicular must change it’s name to something a little more specific like ‘north american living christianity’ to clarify exactly who is allowed to join, for if it discriminates so, it cannot singularly claim to represent the embodiment of the range of worship practiced in the world’s largest religion. i’m quite ragged about this. the word communication has the same root as the word community. one does not exist without the other. i think that the fragmentation of red bubble into a a host of seperate self-interest mini bubbles was not the vision that you and your folks had when you conceived this remarkable parallel universe. by insisting on communication, i do not mean that i wish to engage in theological debate, but rather that i want to make and post some positive stuff on jesus, and get it to the right audience- an audience with whom i would otherwise have very little contact with- neither in daily life, nor on the bubble- and the title of the group ‘living christianity’ thus fits my purpose, which is why i want to join it. generally i try to make a difference with my pictures; some of them are crass statements, others absolute fucking cliches, but they are all done with the best of intentions. first there was anti-facist stuff, then the anti-american colonialism series, more recently the pro-whale anti-whalers stuff. my core messages are clear, love and peace in a global context. i want to move onto jesus, who you can’t really argue with as a banner waver for being nice to everyone and everything, though i can’t help but feel he’s been a little misrepresented in the east recently, in much the same way as muhammed has been in the west. i’d just like to add that in my opinion neither my current tendancy to name myself ridiculously nor have a comedy avatar should count against me as i am clearly just entertaining myself and various other members (nobody has told me that they are offended if they are) nor the nature of any of my other writing or work affiliated to other groups (namely the eponymous parody and lampoon group) should prejudice my right to join any other group. regardless of the treatment i’ve suffered at the hands of the moderators in question, i am still keen on joining the group and getting on with my jesus stuff, because as i said, it’s the best place for my jesus stuff to be. i would appreciate your counsel, opinion, and arbitration respectively on these matters. yours sincerely mister khan.

• Who Am I - Casting Crowns
  by Robert Boretti

  I hope this will brighten your day…. This is such a wonderful Christian Song/Video and the “photography” is amazing! “*Watch Video H…

  I hope this will brighten your day…. This is such a wonderful Christian Song/Video and the “photography” is amazing! Watch Video Here

• Thank you - two spiritual features - "LIVING CHRISTIANITY" and "ANGEL WINGS and HEAVEN" group hosts
  by amarica

  I am very happy to say thank you to Olga , EAWilliams...

  I am very happy to say thank you to Olga , EAWilliams , Kenny Gulley Jr. , Martin Steinbrugger and Dave Law HOSTS of the Living Christianity group for featuring The Glue That Binds Thank you again for this sweet honor. Hugzzzzzzzzzzz / xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Ann / ________ 2nd Thank you Sally Omar of the ANGEL WINGS AND HEAVEN group group for featuring Praying in the spirit God bless you…. hugzzzzzzzzzzzzzz / xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Ann

• 2 Featured Pieces Tonight, I AM TRULY HUMBLED ! THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  by bamagirl38

  Thank you so much for the features ! I am truly honored !!!!! Two features tonight…............. The first, In The Living Christiani…

  Thank you so much for the features ! I am truly honored !!!!! Two features tonight…............. The first, In The Living Christianity Group, I am truly humbled ! Thank you ! The second, comes right from my very own group, LIVE, LOVE, DREAM ! I am humbled and it came unexpected for sure ! I am deeply honored that you would chose my work as a feature ! God bless each and everyone of you and may you always soar in love and in life ! Bonita

• WOW !!!! What a Week !!
  by Phil Thomson IPA

  What a week on redbubble !! I’d just like to express my overwhelming joy and thanks to ALL in the RB community. / My week has been full …

  What a week on redbubble !! I’d just like to express my overwhelming joy and thanks to ALL in the RB community. / My week has been full of highlights and Blessings firstly with “The Covenant”being featured on the Art page. Secondly the sale of two cards of ‘The Covenant’ and ‘Blades on the Locks’, then my image ” The Broken Vessel” being chosen as the avatar for Living Christianity. To top it all off, I opened up redbubble to find that “The Covenant”had made the Home Page!! / I would like to offer my very sincere thanks to everybody who took the time to view “The Covenant” and make ALL those wonderful comments, it really is very overwhelming and somewhat humbling to have such beautiful and genuine comments from a community of very talented people, here on RB !!! / I would also like to express my thanks to those who voted for “The Broken Vessel”, it is real joy to be able to represent the group, like that !! / In regard to “The Covenant” it really was one of those Divine appointments where i was in the right place at the right time to capture “The Magic of the Moment” / The image was taken just after a rainstorm, towards sunset at the close of a rather hot, humid, stormy summer’s day near Geelong, Australia. / Once again thankyou for your wonderful support, / Phil T.

• Another Sale!!!!!
  by Phil Thomson IPA

  I would like to express my heartfelt appreciation to the wonderful person who purchased a mounted print of my image “The Covenant” / I d…

  I would like to express my heartfelt appreciation to the wonderful person who purchased a mounted print of my image “The Covenant” / I do hope and pray that you enjoy viewing it and share some of the Blessing, enjoyment and excitement that I experienced as I stood there in awe and had the utmost pleasure in capturing that “special moment” in time. / Again, Blessings and thanks, / Phil

• OVER-CHRISTIANIZED-NAZI-FUNDAMENTALIST-IDIOTS
  by Dillon Langlands

  Personally Offensive Art / Anti-War, Pro-War..

  Personally Offensive Art / Anti-War, Pro-War You can scream war and watch a roomful of people hit the deck while a city block raises their fists in salute to your call to arms. You can scream fire and a city of people will come to your aid while only a handful of people tuck tail and run, absolved of responsibility. You can scream rape and the nation will mourn with you. Terrorism and we all grit our teeth. Evil and we pray… Pedophile – execute Capitol punishment / Let them live Human rights / Nazi regime Not to mention a very long list of vilifying words and their reactions to follow so long I would crash RedBubble’s servers trying to upload them. As a nation we have developed the idea that being aware of stereotypes and dangers and race issues will help us to be more sensitive to it and ensure that we will not offend anyone who falls into one of these categories. This is wrong… I grew up in Cornwall and a friend of mine from a different province came to see me. He had no idea that racial tension between the Indians (North American Aboriginals for those of you about to freak out about the word Indian). I of course was the ever present walking-talking-encyclopedia that had to ensure he was informed. Because I told him about the racial tensions he stammered, stuttered and made an ass of himself when he met one of my Indian buddies. It took me half an hour to talk them out of kicking his face in. He had no idea there was a problem until I told him there was…so… To you OVER-CHRISTIANIZED-NAZI-FUNDAMENTALIST-IDIOTS on RedBubble going around trying to tell people there’s a problem with their art and making the admins take it down, I have this to tell you. I don’t care what color you are, how old you are, what language you speak or what deity you believe in…if you try to tell people how to live, you are evil. If you think you have the only right answer, you are stupid. If you get a single piece of my artwork banned or another piece of art from a single person I know on this network again, I will personally hack your IP addresses and hand them out to a few hackers I know who delight in deleting people’s RRSPs, bank account, credit cards and putting out warrants for their arrest – erasing the fact they even exist once they’ve been put in jail so that they get lost in the system and then publish a list of your names and home addresses through an anonymous friend of mine on 4Chan so they can see if yoru families get the joke you missed. . . . . . . /

• Update on Grace
  by TREVOR IRWIN

  Greetings my precious friends. I am so thankful to all of you who are a constant encouragement to me and the people in isolated villages …

  Greetings my precious friends. I am so thankful to all of you who are a constant encouragement to me and the people in isolated villages on Africa. Please continue to pray for me, the people in the photographs and each other. GRACE UPDATE. I made contact with Mission Staff in our Mission Centre today Sunday 16th November. I also spoke to one of our heath workers in Tunga/Zuga village where Grace lives. Thanks to A special redbubble friend, who donated £60.00 toward medicines to treat grace, We started treatment on Wednesday 12th November. Grace is still very ill and response to the medication is slow. but Praise God she is fighting the illness, and God is healing her!. It was Grace that brought so much Bmails and comments on her photographs when I first loaded images of her and the mission work on Redbubble. I have many more Photographs of Grace, but do not want to weary viewers with her. if you want to see more of Grace, please bmail me and I will upload more. Please do pray for Grace. God does hear you and does answer prayers. TWINS: / The twins are also in great need of prayer. they to are extremely malnourished and sick. Also here I give a great bif thank you to all group administrators who also have played a big part in helping the Mission, bu featuring some of my work on their groups. This is a Blessing and I thank you all from the bottom of my heart. Thank you also to Squealia, for building my redbubble site, Plus adding button to my profile page, and grouping my images in groups. This save s viewers from tracking through many pages of my work. thank you so much my sister in Christ. I will keep you all updated on Grace and her progress. hopefully I will be able to upload a Video of some of the children on the Charity website by end of week. God Bless you all and please continue to pray for me, as I do for you. Your Friend and Brother in Christ. Trevor. Link to my Mission Africa Website: / http://www.philadelphia33.org/ Please Visit my profile page and click on the buttons to see all my work in organised groups. http://www.redbubble.com/people/joshuatree1 PLEASE VIEW MY ART WHICH IS AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE AND HELP US SAVE AND IMPROVE THE LIVES OF SO MANY DESPERATE PEOPLE WHO NEED YOUR HELP IN ISOLATED AND RURAL VILLAGES IN AFRICA ~ PLEASE CLICK HERE

• *I WILL CHANGE ALL THOSE FOR WHOM YOU INTERCEDE*
  by TREVOR IRWIN

  http://www.philadelphia33.org/ Precious Brothers and Sisters in the Lord. It is Sunday Morning here…

  http://www.philadelphia33.org/ Precious Brothers and Sisters in the Lord. It is Sunday Morning here in London. Time: 8:20am. / As I have decided to spend most of the day in prayer for all who are in need, The Holy Spirit has put an urgency to share with all who are Prayer warriors a deep truth found in Gods word about his part in answering our prayers for those whom we pray For. JOB 22:30- “I will deliver those for whom you pray for”. This is from the {Amplified Bible}, which is one of the few that gives an accurate interpretation of the original text. [Please take note: Not all bibles are accurate. The king James is still the best, but a few others have been so watered down that they make the true meaning of the scriptures weak. Remember its not about personal taste here. It’s about the true undeleted word of God. So I do use the Amplified, alongside the King James Version] Job 22: 30 I WILL CHANGE ALL THOSE FOR WHOM YOU PRAY. This should give each one of us great confidence and excitement, as we stand before God Interceding for our precious friends in their times of need. Our Heavenly Father assures us that If we Intercede on their behalf, that God himself will hear and change their situation, Circumstances and bring them out stronger than what they were before. Beloved. Its not long winded prayers that gets Gods attention. it is your level of Faith and understanding of his will. Its Not your tears that moves him, It is Faith. / Heb 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarded of them that diligently seek him. Jesus constantly encourages us to pray. to our heavenly Father. But In every case he assures us that God will answer us and grant us the request. / John 14:14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. / Mat 21:22* And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. Intercessory Prayer is often not a ministry that is open to all to see. often it is in the quite Prayer Closet, or out of reach of others who cannot see or hear you. But God does hear you. HE HAS PROMISED YOU THAT HE WILL CHANGE, DELIVER, SET FREE, SUPPLY ABUNDANCE OF GRACE AND FAVOR, HEAL AND TURN SITUATIONS AROUND TO THE BENIFIT OF ALL, When we Intercede. This ia an office, a Ministry that God desires to grow within his church [The Body of Christ]. The Church is not a building that many call Church. The Church is the Body of Christ here on earth, . You are am member of His body. / Eph 5:30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. You are the one he wants to stand in the gap. The one who he waits to hear and the one he has promised to answer when you pray. Sadly today many within the Christian ministry seek the visible and noticeable ministries. The Preaching and teaching, ministries. This is good as they are greatly needed. But Intercessory Prayer is much in demand. I don’t want to take up much of your time her, but I feel led by God to share with you a experience the Lord revealed personally to me. In my days as a baby Christian I would spend almost all of my prayer time asking God for the things I needed and desired, as the Word of God revealed them to me. For Years I would pray and still not receive all that was requested. But I continued to seek God. Serving God for over 15 years without even the money for a plane ticket to travel to the people of Africa where God sent me was not living in His abundant provisions. Yet at these times he would always send those whom he had handpicked to meet my needs and also to bless them in their obedience in giving towards his minister and work. Then Through JOB 22:30 Amp Bible] He opened my eyes to the benefits of praying for others. I started to bring people before him each day, and I saw the changes that God had made in their lives. Family Members, Church Members, Neighbours, even those who had lied to me and let me down. God changed them. Many are saved today and did not know that this little Evangelist was praying for just that. Beloved, I have had an angel pay my hotel bill. I shook the hand of an angel several times. I have held the hand of Jesus, and had people I did not know sow seed I to Gods Work in Africa. I pray daily for the souls of the extreme poor villagers and the sick and hungry children here at home. I see the Grace and Favour of God manifest each time I Go on Mission. I speak words of Life into the dry barren hearts of the nation and its people. Each time I go, I have the confidence that God has been working and preparing the hearts of all who will come in contact with me, to receive his son Jesus as Lord and Saviour. / John 6:44* No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. / I intercede for each man woman and child. I see the results just as he has promised. Beloved. We have had all the great preachers preach and today still preach and teach. God Bless them as they continue to win countless souls for God. But Preaching is not enough. We need to learn to intercede and how to Pray for others. I need your Prayers of intercession and Where led by God financial seed. It is your Intercessory Prayers that Make mission work so sweet and successful. Conclusion / The lord has indeed opened a great door of Opportunity to reach the lost and intercede for those in need. When you look away from yourself and pray for others, God will change them and in doing so he changes you also. Your needs are met in Christ. Not all have come to this level of understanding. Let us bare one and other up in prayer. Hold someone’s hand today! Stand beside them in Faith. Pray also For Olga and the team at Living Christianity. They are placed here by God to help and encourage all. LIVING CHRISTIANITY IS GOING TO EXPLODE WORLDWIDE!!!! Evangelist Trevor Irwin. http://www.philadelphia33.org/*

• *Jesus Called ny name*
  by TREVOR IRWIN

  http://www.philadelphia33.org/ Jesus He called my name. For all who are Christian, those who…

  http://www.philadelphia33.org/ Jesus He called my name. For all who are Christian, those who have been born again and received Jesus as lord and Saviour, there was a time when you heard Jesus Call your name. A time when you knew that The Lord loved you and wanted your heart. This is what I mean when I say He called my name. for those who have read my personal testimony, you will know that he called my name. When I was a chronic Alcoholic, gambler and one who practiced witchcraft. *. Due to the requests of friends I have met via Redbubble, I have decided to share with you, how the lord called me to serve him in Africa. A call to service. [As the Lord lives and is true and holy, I certify that what you are about to read is a true account of how Jesus called me into Missionary Service. This is still as fresh in my memory today as it was when this incredible event took place in my life] On Friday 26th August 1994, I was troubled in my spirit all day. I sat and watched Television and read a book, but yet I felt God wanted to speak to me, but I did not know what he wanted. So my wife said to me that I should just go to the park and pray. It was 6.05pm in the evening when I arrived at the park, and I parked my car and started to walk around the park. / I was walking and looking at the swans on the pond and praying at the same time. Then with not warning at all, I became aware that someone was walking close behind me. I did not look back, but knew someone was behind me. I continued walking along a narrow footpath and as I did I felt a person’s hand holding mine. There was no fear or indeed any desire to look to see who this was that was holding my right hand. / It was very strange looking back now to why I did not want to see who it was. This would have been anyone’s reaction at the time. I felt warm and at peace, not knowing that It was *Jesus who was the one actually holding my hand. I was Praying in the Spirit [speaking to God in the gift of tongues]. Then Jesus said my name, Trevor. It was the softness and Love in his voice that caused me to look and as I say my Masters face, I knew that It was him. He did not need to tell me it was Jesus. When Jesus comes to you my friend, you won’t need any introduction or explanation, for you will know it is the King of kings that has called your name. In an instant tears my friend flowed down my face, and I was crying like I have never cried before. My emotions were overwhelmed with sadness and sorrow, because his eyes were filled with tears also and he was quietly weeping. Here was my Jesus holding my hand and he was crying. I could not understand why I was not jubilant with Joy. His sorrow pierced my very fibre of my being. By now, I was transported away from all consciousness of being in the park on a bright summer evening and we were in a dark place. The Only way I can describe this pace is to use a well as an example. Imagine a deep round stone well, empty, and you are at the bottom of it. It is very round and very wide. So can hardly see the other side of it, and you can just make out the huge stones that form the round sides of it. It’s dark at the bottom and you cannot see any light, except the light that emanates from Jesus Garments. This is how it seemed at that point. As I Gazed into his face, he spoke these words to me. / “Trevor, My Son, I want to show you something, do not be afraid my son for I am with you”. There was a short silence as these words took hold of me. He gently squeezed my hand and began to walk forward in this dark place. As we went forward, he was still weeping, and I could hear voices in the distance and different kinds of noises, like doors opening and closing, and A smell that I had never experienced before. I was crying as the Passion and sorrow of Jesus seemed to flow into my heart. It was so hard to carry such sadness and I have never experienced this before or after. Then I began to see people at my left side and all were chained to the walls and terrible sores were all over them, and all were shouting things at Jesus. I could not make out what they were saying, but Jesus was crying and weeping. The smell was terrible and there were some that when they say him cried as well. As we went forward the light that was so white lit up the side and a little ahead. The place was so big and wide I could not see the other ends. Then he again spoke to me “Trevor my Son, Do not be afraid”. I was scared, but his words just melted away any fears I had. We then came to a place where I saw am Casket alone and as we walked pass, a man spoke and said “Jesus, Why have you let me come here?. Jesus with tears answered him and said “Judgement has been set”. Again the man shouted at him and started to explain to Jesus that he was a pastor and that all his life he served Jesus and Preached and give to those in need. Jesus said again to him, “Judgement has been set”. / / All the time Jesus was weeping and I was looking at Jesus all the time, and I never did see the man, but knew he was a man, because of his voice. Again the man pleaded with Jesus and told him many other good things he had done and as he was talking, Jesus raised his other hand and stopped the man from speaking. Then Jesus said to the man, “ I sent you warnings, I sent messengers to warn you and you did not repent, for the woman you slept with was not the wife I had given you, and you died in your sins, therefore Judgement has been set”. Jesus was very sad, and began to lead me further into this dark and cold place. Then we came to another place like a very large open place with walls so thick and wide and there were like empty prison cells all around. One cell stacked upon another and I could not see where they ended, and they were so high. Then Jesus knelt down on his knees and was now crying and I could feel his body shaking. All this time he was still holding my right hand. I stood beside him with tears flowing down my face and my heart was breaking with compassion and sadness for my Lovely Lord Jesus. I then knelt down beside him and wanted to hold him close, but I was so troubled to see My Lord cry like this. Then I asked him the only question I asked through all of this. “Lord, why are you crying, there is nobody here?. In what seemed like a long time we both cried and cried. Then still kneeling, Jesus looked deep into my eyes and said, / “This Place is prepared for all those who do not know my name”. / As I looked all around, I now could hear screams and fluttering wings and rustlings above our heads high above where we were. I saw in the darkness shadows of what I can only describe as winged demons, hellish beings flying about. Jesus was weeping so hard and as he stood up, I was still on my knees. He looked into my face and said to me “My Son, Go to Africa, to the villages and proclaim my name among the people, Go tell them who I am and that I love them, and I will be with you each step you take” Then Again suddenly, as if no time passed, I was back in the park. The first thing I became aware of was that I could not feel his hand in mine. I cried and begged him to come back again, and I remember saying Lord there is so much I want to ask you. The Holy Spirit then opened the eyes of my understanding and I realised that God had allowed me to have a vision where Jesus came and called my name. Where he had appeared to me and called me for service. I was deeply shaken and all they way back to my car, I was worshipping my lord in tongues [heavenly Language]. How I drove home, I do not know, and as I told my wife and we both just praised God and give thanks. I told my pastor the following day Saturday 27th August 1994, and the response are you sure it was Jesus. I was upset and few in the church the following day had any encouragement. So On Monday 27th August 1994 I went to my local travel agent and asked how much a ticket would be for Uganda. As a boy in School we had a visiting teacher from Uganda. I marvelled at the little round huts they lived in and the photographs she showed us was amazing. So I settled it that Uganda was the place God wanted me to go. The ticket was £530.00. I had no money so I sold my car. I was determined to get to where Jesus sent me and do what he told me to do. All this time and even now. I still see my Lord and the love in his beautiful eyes. Yes I still cry and know someday I will be with him forever. I Got the exact money from the sale of my car. It was then that the Church saw that I was committed to following my lords Commission. A Little money came in and I went to Africa on Saturday 24th September 1994. I arrived in a country where I knew nobody. I asked the taxi driver at Entebbe airport to take me to a Christian Guesthouse. He took me to marimba Guest house. That evening as I lay alone in my little room, a house girl knocked my door. She asked if I would like to attend a church. I was so happy. The following Day I who knew nobody was preaching to a Church of Over 2000 people. That evening I was speaking at Chief of Police Wedding anniversary, and in that audience were Government officials, and others. The following week I was given a small house to live in free of charge, a Vehicle and driver, and the mission to extreme poor and isolated villages was born. Since that time I have dedicated my whole life to Preaching the Gospel in remote areas of Africa, South India and have never had a salary. I have trusted and depended on God to meet my needs and that of my family. There have been and still are difficulties in rising the cost of Travel, But God always blesses me with Good people whom he has given a passion and heart to pray for these precious children and to sow financially into his work. This is how the Lord called me to service. I pray It will bless and inspire you. Thank you to all who have asked me how God called me to be a missionary without having a job to fund it. Isa 49:5 [COMMON ENGLISH BIBLE] Even before I was born, the LORD God chose me to serve him and to lead back the people So the LORD has honoured me and made me strong. Evangelist Trevor Irwin. Please visit Charity mission website by clicking link below. / http://www.philadelphia33.org/ Link to all my art: / http://www.redbubble.com/people/joshuatree1

• Feature Thank you Living Christianity Group
  by amarica

  Thank you Olga, EA, Kenny, Martin and Dave for featuring My Church!http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/art/size:large/view:main/1637460-3…

  Thank you Olga, EA, Kenny, Martin and Dave for featuring My Church in the Living Christianity group Have a wonderful weekend all of you. xxxxxxxxxxxxx

• Sincere Appreciation !!!
  by Phil Thomson IPA

  I would really like to thank the person who purchased two mounted prints, earlier today (AEST). / 1x Great is Thy Faithfulness and / 1x T…

  I would really like to thank the person who purchased two mounted prints, earlier today (AEST). / 1x Great is Thy Faithfulness and / 1x The Covenant / I really do appreciate it and hope you will enjoy viewing them and experience the overwhelming joy and excitement that I did, when they arrive, as much as I did when I had the pleasure of capturing the wonderful atmosphere at those times. / Sincerely, / Phil Thomson

• Featured in Living Christianity!
  by LindaMcCarthy

  A sincere thank you to Olga / EAWilliams / “Kenny Gul…

  A sincere thank you to Olga / EAWilliams / Kenny Gulley Jr. / martin steinbrugger / and Dave Law for featuring my image / Alice The song by Janice Kapp Perry has always been one of my favorites in the Children’s Songbook at our church. As I fashioned the image for Alice , / I thought of the words to the song. I know so many of us are praying for her and her family. The Lord loves each of us with a perfect love. Sometimes I can feel that love as I pray; more particularly, as I pray for others. I praise and thank my heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ for Their loving kindness and care!

• THREE FEATURES!!! ~ THANK YOU STATUES AND SUCH AND BITS AND PIECES
  by Marie Sharp

  A special thank you to the hosts of Statues and Such for featuring: !http://images-2.redbubble.net/img/art/framecolor:black/framestyle…

  A special thank you to the hosts of Statues and Such for featuring: / Also, a big thank you to Bits and Pieces for featuring Sculpture Plaza and Words of Wisdom by Saint Teresa! God bless you for your time and talent devoted to making these groups so wonderful!! Words of Wisdom by Saint Teresa People are often unreasonable and self-centered. / FORGIVE THEM ANYWAY. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. / BE KIND ANYWAY. If you are honest, people may cheat you. / BE HONEST ANYWAY. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. / BE HAPPY ANYWAY. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. / DO GOOD ANYWAY. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. / GIVE YOUR BEST ANYWAY. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. / IT NEVER WAS BETWEEN YOU AND THEM ANYWAY.

• CALLING ALL CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE READ !!!!!!!!!!
  by bamagirl38

  I just now received some terrible news…...... A really good friend of mine from another site has been involved in a motorcycle wreck…...

  I just now received some terrible news…...... A really good friend of mine from another site has been involved in a motorcycle wreck… He and his wife…... his wife seems to be ok , other than some bruising, however, He has suffered 5 broken ribs, punctured lungs and a lacerated liver. WE NEED YOUR PRAYERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IF we all gather together in unity in prayer for my dear friend, GOD WILL HEAR US AND OUR PRAYERS WILL BE ANSWERED !!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Praise be to the Lord in all things !!!!!!!!!!!!! Bonita

• The great sin of the Christian church
  by Daniel Rarela

  _This quality of restraint in Jesus – one could almost call it a divine shyness – took me by surprise. I realized, as I absorbed the sto…

  This quality of restraint in Jesus – one could almost call it a divine shyness – took me by surprise. I realized, as I absorbed the story of Jesus in the Gospels, that I had expected from him the same qualities I had met in the southern fundamentalist church of my childhood. There, I often felt the victim of emotional pressures. Doctrine was dished out in a “Believe, and don’t ask questions!” style. Wielding the power of miracle, mystery, and authority, the church left no place for doubt. I also learned the manipulative techniques for “soul-winning,” some of which involved misrepresenting myself to the person I was talking to. Yet now I am unable to find any of these qualities in the life of Jesus. If I read church history correctly, many other followers of Jesus have yielded to the very temptations he resisted. Dostoevsky shrewdly replayed the Temptation scene in a torture cell of the Grand Inquisition. How could a church founded by the One who withstood the Temptation carry out an Inquisition of forced belief that lasted half a millennium? Meanwhile, in a milder Protestant version in the city of Geneva, officials were making attendance at church compulsory and refusal to take the Eucharist a crime. Heretics there, too, were burned at the stake. To its shame, Christian history reveals unrelieved attempts to improve on the way of Christ. Sometimes the church joins hands with a government that offers a shortcut to power. “The worship of success is generally THE form of idol worship which the devil cultivates most assiduously,” wrote Helmut Thielicke about the German church’s early infatuation with Adolf Hitler. “We could observe in the first years after 1933 the almost suggestive compulsion that emanates from great successes and how, under the influence of these successes, men, even Christians, stopped asking in whose name and at what price…” Sometimes the church grows its own mini-Hitlers, men with names like Jim Jones and David Koresh, who understand all too well the power represented in miracle, mystery, and authority. And sometimes the church simply borrows the tools of manipulation perfected by politicians, salesmen, and advertising copyrighters. – excerpt from The Jesus I Never Knew, by Philip Yancey it is for this reason that, even though I am a Christ follower, I can only be so offended when people like Bill Maher (whose show is extremely insightful, entertaining, and funny) are quick to bash Christianity. If you listen very closely, insults like Maher’s are nearly always directed at Christians, but hardly ever Jesus himself. If anything, it sheds a light on how much we need God’s grace: believer or not, nobody does a good job of walking in the same footsteps of Christ, and every time we try to pave that road into something that’s a little easier on our feet, we do such a lousy job of it that it should come as no surprise that so many people roll their eyes at Christians. Ghandi said it best: “I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” And Margaret Cho put it a little more bluntly: “Many of my contemporaries are atheists, and for good reason. God isn’t really the problem; some of His followers are big assholes.” That being said, I kind of feel the need to let people know that JESUS is the true face of Christianity, not other Christians, not Jerry Falwell, not the misguided believers (that’s pretty much all of us) who get the most media attention when you turn on the news. So, to my atheist friends, I won’t fault you for sniping or rolling your eyes at Christians in general – in truth, we deserve it, more often than not. But, if whatever doubt you have in your heart is really that strong, I hope it motivates you to find some answers – I hope it motivates you guys to study the Man whom I find it difficult to stop listening to/ thinking/ praising/ writing/ singing/ talking about. And if you really take a good look at Him, read about him, who He was, and what He did, from all viewpoints and perspectives, then I hope you’ll understand why I call myself a follower of Jesus Christ, why the most anyone can be is a poor reflection of Him, and why I keep trying to be a little more like Him in spite of the fact that I seem to fail at every single attempt.

• Thank you Living Christianity group hosts
  by amarica

  Thank you Olga, EA, Kenny, Martin and Dave for featuring Trust In The Lord-...

  Thank you Olga, EA, Kenny, Martin and Dave for featuring Trust In The Lord in the Living Christianity group xxxxx Ann

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  THANK ALL OF YOU IN Living Christianity FOR FEATURING And There Was Hope THANK YOU OLGA,KENNY,MARTIN,SHARON,AND DAVE / !http://images-3.re…

  THANK ALL OF YOU IN Living Christianity FOR FEATURING And There Was Hope THANK YOU OLGA,KENNY,MARTIN,SHARON,AND DAVE / / / THANK YOU ALL IN Prize Challenges FOR FEATURING BEGAINING / THANK YOU MELISSA ,HALLEY AND ALEX /

• Arables - Grounds for Growing Faith - My First Book!!!!!
  by lightsmith

  Well, I’ve done it. My first book! Not of images, but stories. Arables Short stories aimed …

  Well, I’ve done it. My first book! Not of images, but stories. Arables Short stories aimed at developing (and sometimes challenging) your Christian faith. They are funny, they are sad. They will amaze, they will suprise. As with most of my works, they are very, very different. Look at your beliefs from a different perspective….. and deepen them. Arables