Praise Video: He Knows My Name - Featuring Joseph Larson

SonLife Singer Joseph Larson

Hello!

Recently, I discovered SonLife Broadcasting Network on Channel 22.3 in Phoenix, Arizona.

SonLife is a somewhat new Christian Network by Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.

Wait!  Who??  Jimmy Swaggart???

Some of you may be saying:  "Isn't he that disgraced evangelist who was discredited in the late 1980's and early 90's?"

Yup...one in the same.

So I began watching this new discovery with a little skepticism.

One of the first things I realized about SonLife's 24 hour a day programing...is that the music is AMAZING!!!!

It is uplifting, often uptempo, and has a modern southern gospel-country church-tent revival feel that my ear just loves!

And the musicians are some of the best I've ever seen!

Jimmy is still preaching along with his wife, son, grandson and others.

After watching SonLife for a week or so, one day I was reminded of the scripture: 

1 John 2:19 (NIV):  "They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us."

And I thought about this man who is still preaching the Gospel 20 plus years after his public fall...laboring for 2 decades generally out of the larger public spotlight....and I decided this was proof to me of Swaggart's genuine faith!

Born in 1937, Jimmy is now 77 years old and I believe from watching him he and his ministry have been completely restored to God.

Is he or his ministry perfect?  No...as nothing man does is!!  But SonLife declares the true message that Jesus is Lord and the son of God, that God raised him from the dead, and we find salvation through faith in Him alone.

I often leave the TV on when I'm home and turn up the volume a bit so even when I'm in other rooms I can hear Jimmy's anointed musicians praising God!

I'd never heard the song "He Knows My Name" before and love the way Swaggart's Praise team performs it.

Give it a listen...and put any old preconceived notions you have about Jimmy aside...and let the music Bless you!

  

All Images in this post are screen captures from the video

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Funny Video: Me!Church

Hello!

I grew up in churches but have been out of the church for a while and recently with a renewed faith have been church shopping, literally going to at least two dozen looking for the right fit.

One Sunday morning I admitted that to a church member where I was visiting, and he seemed to reply rather disdainfully, "Oh, so you're a church shopper."

Images are Screen Captures from the video

Having heard this before...it seems many in the Christian church believe that you should simply start attending a nearby church and become a member there.

But when else does that ever apply?

Do we buy the first car we test drive...or the first home "for sale" we visit?

Of course, as in love, some people are Blessed to find the right match on the first try...but don't most of us look and search for almost everything before finding the right match?


Don't most of us spend time finding the right college/university, mechanic, doctor, lawyer, accountant etc, etc, etc?

Have you ever heard someone say that after they discovered their favorite restaurant that they go way out of their way to dine there, because they love the food, the service, and deserts etc"?

So shouldn't we look for the right church home...until we find it?

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The upside to all my searching is that I've certainly seen a lot of different worship...umm...rather to say..."styles" of church services.

From the quaint old fashioned, but quite "dead" little churches singing hymns from many decades ago...to dazzling MEGA-Churches with thousands of members, a modern light show and rockin' "praise" band.

I've attended churches who advertise themselves like a night club and who's messages seemed designed to entertain and wow...but aspired to little else.

I've heard sermons where the only focus was SEX, SEX, SEX and have felt in my spirit pastors "ooze" sexual lust from the pulpit.

 I've sat in churches and received mechanical "hello's and welcome's"...which is only slightly better than churches where I've come and gone and was literally not greeted in any way.

Recently, I attended a service where they turned off the lights, and while the preacher prayed loudly into the microphone people shouted prayers all over the room.  It was bedlam...and not the order Paul commands in 1 Corinthians 14.

So, yes, I'm still looking and pray that in time I can find a church to call home.  (I do plan to go back to one soon that I've attended a few times, where I was given a friendly greeting and the Spirit of God seemed to be there!)

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Perhaps all my searching is why I found the video "meChurch" so amusing.

Even if you love your church and didn't have a hard time finding it...you may enjoy it as well.

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