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Wretched Truth Will Out

Bill O'Neill — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 20:07:48 +0000

I just heard this while listening to Wretched Radio. Todd Friel reviews a rabbi’s perspective on the matter of truth and then presents audio from an episode of ER entitled Truth Will Out with guest star Hal Holbrook delivering a very convicting message on truth to a garden variety central casting post-modern helper. Here is the audio….

Addison County Gospel Choir

Bill O'Neill — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 21:55:12 +0000

Here’s the audio from the last performance of the Christmas season yesterday for the Addison County Gospel Choir. I recorded the performance which was held a Brandon Baptist Church in Brandon, Vermont on Saturday, 11 December 2010.

Abomination for a Church

Bill O'Neill — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:22:15 +0000

Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas – that’s the abomination dressing itself up as a church every Sunday morning and then traveling nationwide to protest as funerals of fallen United States soldiers. And it happened again. This time, residents of a small town sent the clearly lost souls back on the road to spew their false doctrine elsewhere. Here’s the story from Fox News “We got everybody here early so we could take up all the parking spots,” Rebecca Rooney of Weston, Mo., told Fox4kc.com. “We did that so Mr. Phelps wouldn’t have a contingency that was really close.” It seems that there is a steady drumbeat of the lunacy associated with Westboro Baptist Church. Their modus operandi is not the Great Commission, the spreading of the Gospel message, but one of co-opting solemn moments like those of a funeral for a loved one, a loved one whose notoriety is borne out of fearless service to our nation. In the book of Matthew chapter 28, verses 18-20, Jesus commands, Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the Continue reading →

“We call this…. ‘Growtivation’”

Bill O'Neill — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:00:35 +0000

“You can’t stop it. Coming to a town near you….” This video parody would be be funnier if it didn’t get so close to the matter of what, tragically, is going on in so many Christian churches across much of America and the western world today. “We call it… ‘Contemporvant.’” www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RJBd8zE48A “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires and will turn away their ears from the truth, and will turn aside to myths.” 2 Timothy 4:3-4 [NAS] Many seekers and professed Christians are presenting themselves in “modern” or “mega” churches needing to be fed the Gospel message and are going away hungry, lost. Here’s the link. of a resource explaining the damaging pattern of church growth, a primer on the foundation of the ‘movement’ at Saddleback Church and Rick Warren. In 1998, Dr Dennis Costella attended a PDC seminar where Rick Warren taught that the following had to occur to transform a traditional church into a growing PDC (purpose driven church): A contemporary-styled, non-threatening “Seeker Service” must replace the traditional Sunday worship service; The dress must Continue reading →

Paul Washer on Taking the Message to the World

Bill O'Neill — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:40:44 +0000

Paul Washer on the seven great requirements of the Christian missionary preaching from the Gospel of Luke. And Washer should know of missions – he’s dedicated his life to Christian missions for many years.
The first of the list of seven requirements is that a prospective missionary “must be totally, absolutely, and completely convinced of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.”

Relevant Christians?

Bill O'Neill — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:26:01 +0000

Johnson raises some great points in his blog article, not the least of which is it’s article’s title, “Chasing Cool and Becoming Lukewarm.”

Vermont not “OK” with cross

Bill O'Neill — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:18:35 +0000

Do you know what makes this “Vermont” story all that more interesting to me? I had to go to an “Oklahoma” news source to find it. Greetings from Vermont.
The battle is on between religious freedom and land use laws around the country. The Oklahoman reports in NewsOK that here in Vermont a couple of Roman Catholics wish to maintain an illuminated cross of substantial size, twenty four feet, at a chapel they built for their very large family and the general public. State and local authorities say “no.”

Sears & ‘Woe’-buck?

Bill O'Neill — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:27:14 +0000

Perhaps a name change is in order at SEARS? How about Sears & ‘Woe-buck’? SEARS’ online catalog has definitely ‘flipped the switch’ and has decidedly… “Another [SEARS online ad] reveals two topless women embracing, wearing only the skimpiest of shorts, a model who appears to be wearing some water and a small sponge, and a group of women wearing revealing lingerie.”

Gulf Oil

Bill O'Neill — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:59:16 +0000

More good news on the rapidly improving situation in the Gulf waters.