Archive for January, 2011

RICK WARREN’S HEALTH PROGRAM

Monday, January 31st, 2011

  By Ken Blue  I am the last person in the world qualified to write about diets, health foods, and weight loss. I break all the rules and it is evident. I eat what I want. I don’t take vitamins and I don’t exercise. I am overweight; I have heartburn, and high cholesterol. So you [...]

THE WEEPING SAVIOR

Saturday, January 29th, 2011

By Ken Blue   “Jesus wept.” John 11:35. And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, Luke 19:41 “Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and [...]

THE CIRCLE OF REASON

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

By Ken Blue   Every person has a circle of reason. I am not talking about circular reasoning, but the circle or circumference of one’s reasoning. When we allow ourselves to be pulled into the other mans circle, we are at his mercy and under his rules. A Christian must not fall for this tactic. [...]

WOULD I USE OTHER VERSIONS OF THE BIBLE

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

By Ken Blue Recently I was asked if I would use any Bible other than the King James Version if it meant reaching someone for Christ. My response was that I would not. However, my answer was in the context of my pulpit ministry. As pastor of Open Door, I always believed and used the [...]

ONE MORE PEACE-LOVING ACT OF ISLAM

Monday, January 24th, 2011

‘Harry Potter’ Actress’ Brother Sentenced in Her ‘Honor Beating’ Fox news January 21,2011-Fox news.com The brother of the Muslim actress Afshan Azad, who played Padma Patil in the “Harry Potter” films, was sentenced to six months in prison Thursday for beating his sister after he heard her talking to her Hindu boyfriend.  Ashraf Azad, 28, [...]

MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE

Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

 By Ken Blue One of the issues that must not be discussed openly among fundamentalist pastors is the subject of divorced and remarriage. When you do, you have just kicked the beehive. So, let’s kick it! I accepted the Lord in the mid fifties in a Baptist church which belonged to an association of churches [...]

KEEPING YOUR FAITH TO YOURSELF

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Ken Blue “For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.  Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify [...]

A GREAT WOMAN

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

By Ken Blue “And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread”. 2 Kings 4:8.   What was it about this woman that [...]

THE TRADITION TEST

Monday, January 17th, 2011

By Ken Blue   “Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek.” Acts 16:3. For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, [...]

A TOMB WITH A VIEW

Friday, January 14th, 2011

By Ken Blue   Recently Joyce and I traveled to Wenatchee, WA where we grew up. Most of our deceased family members are buried there. Our purpose for the trip was to purchase our grave plots. I paid for all my funeral arrangements. If the rapture takes place before I need the plot, and you [...]