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Looking For PD messages on Baptism & Filling Of Holy Spirit

drewhayes — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:18:04 GMT

I am looking for application-oriented messages on the baptism of the Holy Spirit, from the 2nd experience perspective, and the filling of the Spirit. I would also be interested in messages on prayer language.

I can find plenty of doctrinal stuff. I'm looking for models of preaching these topics that is strong on application and connects with seekers, new Christian, and uncommitted Christ-followers.

If a church needed a Minister or a Minister a Church, How would each use this site to find each other?

Sonny — Sun, 10 May 2009 00:02:10 GMT

Greetings,

If a church needed a Minister or a Minister a Church, How would each use this site to find each other?

Or Could they? and if so how would they?

Is this something the site can or should do?

Thank you,

Wrong church listed on my profile

E. Calvin Beisner — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:49:26 GMT

When filling in my profile, I started typing the name of my church, and the site took over and completed--with a different church, which I didn't realize till I'd saved. I've managed to add in my proper church, but how do I delete from my church profile the wrong one?

Do You Use Technology?

Thom Reagan — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:51:26 GMT

I've gotta question for you. Do you use computer technology like Twitter or Tokbox to follow/communicate with other pastors? Do you use Facebook or MySpace or other social networking things that you use? I'm curious to know if you use any technology and what it might be.

I use (and love) Twitter (here I am)

I am beginning to use Tokbox (here I am too) and from time to time you can find me in the www.churchstaffbreakroom.com (realtime video conferencing)

E-mail

glauber — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:55:59 GMT

no more e-mail users? I lost all my mail?

Greetings from a refugee pastor!

Dipak Rai — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:49:43 GMT

Dear pastors,

Greetings in his name!

I'm Pastor Jonathan Rai from the Bhutanese Refugee Camp Timai, Nepal. I left my country in 1990, due to racial crisis. these days I'm along with my family living in the east Nepal. Inspite of my homelessness I'm serving the Lord in the refugee camp and in local area Nepal.

Please pray for me and my minisrty .

Yours In Him,

Jonathan Rai

(A Little Man For Jesus)

World Hunger and Famine statistics

forbescw — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:06:15 GMT

Hi,

I'm looking for some statistics I can use in a message on world hunger. I have all the standard stats but here's what I am looking for:

I think it would be a good visual to have sample meal sizes (pile of rice, etc) to describe what people eat in the world. Nearly 1b people would have an empty plate, 1.3b live on $1/day (some size of food on a plate), 3b live on $2/day (some size of food on a plate), etc. We want to have samples up front so people get a visual of the hunger problem. Does anyone have a pointer to resources that have this information?

Thanks and God Bless,

Craig

Second Blog...Need to Delete

Heather Harris — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:15:08 GMT

Some how I created a second blog that I need to delete. I cannot find any options to delete a blog. Please help with instructions....thank you!

Is it possible to create a blog at Pastors.com?

Daniel — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:29:57 GMT

I'm a little lost here...

I was trying to find a way to create a blog. is it possíble? how?

I thought it was through the option blog, but it doesn't show any option for me...

thanks,

Daniel

Sign-in name

John Crowder — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:29:08 GMT

Just joined pastors.com Made a bad choice for my sign-in name. Is there a way to change my sign-in nme to a different one?

Please Remove Me!

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:56:43 GMT

Hi Pastors.com

This is a great idea, but unfortunately I cannot seem to make anything work on this website. I cannot edit my profile. It will not save any changes I make. There is no place I could find to contact the administrator. I was thinking about removing my profile and starting over, but I could not find anyway to do this. So, could you please remove me from pastor.com? Thanks. Hope you get the bugs worked out.

My name is Wayne Flowers. Smythe Street Cathedral. User name Flowers.

Thanks,

Wayne

My Life and Death, with Jesus Christ

Roland Dell — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:48:52 GMT

Hello Fellow Believers,

I will not bore you with my life story (again) because if you want to see it please visit my website @ Lightship Ministries.Org or my Pastors.Com Profile.

I am posting this page as a living testimony to knowing Jesus Christ on this side of our existence, because I have been dead shortly and Christ is the same God of our lives here on earth, as when we are dead!

The Bible teaches us He will never leave you, nor forsake you, once we have Salvation in Him. And this is certainly true, as I am about to explain in some of my testimonies.

You may or may not believe me, but I found it much easier knowing Jesus Christ when I died than was I was alive... Why; because when we are dead we can see Him, feel Him, and experience Him! However, when we are alive in our physical bodies (earthly; being made of earth) we are trapped in these tents, and normally must rely on faith more so than personal experiences.

I have been fortunate in my walk with Christ, in that I was raised up in a solid Bible believing family; but was enough of a rebel to demand that Christ himself would reveal himself to me in my life! What nerve some may feel, that I would dare put a challenge to God like this, but that is who I was.

Although well taught doctrines on how I should live the Christian life, I always wanted more of Christ Himself than what somebody else taught me about Him.

I will interject here: That the Lord used my experiences and teachings while involved in “street ministry” from 1983-1989 under Pastor Michael W. Gross D.D., Th.D., Ph.D. to build on what I had learned as a child and young adult. I do not wish to be offensive to those that are certainly much more educated than me.

But I must say however, that I believe I learned more on the streets, than by any amount of book knowledge could have ever taught me.

I always wanted to attend Seminary in my life, and must confess that I struggle with my lack of formal education, because this is what my family and our society today deeply stress in being successful; and to be completely honest I see it in the Church as well.

Well if you have gotten past reading the prior paragraph, than I will continue working backwards from my Near Death Experience (NDE) to explaining my more difficult task in knowing the Lord as I live and breath.

On exactly my 20 years of Military training, my heart decided to stop while undertaking Water Survival Training at Ft., MD. A Warrant Officer CW4 Gunport, and my Commander immediately called in the Post Paramedics. These men were prior coworkers of my brother, now working at the National Navel Medical Center. These events would later be completely documented, and even submitted to Senator John McCain’s office, for some much needed assistance with Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Meade

Just before my heart stopped I pleaded with God to let me live, I was worried about my wife and my only desire was to tell the world about what Christ had done for me in my life! When my heart stopped; I could first feel and see an image of Christ lying next to me shoulder to shoulder! (Please take note of this sentence.)

As I regained consciousness it was as if I were under the Street, it was completely black and noise was all I sense. Than it appeared to me as if someone was slowly sliding open a “manhole” cover above me. I could see the Paramedics faces looking down on me as they worked, than my total consciousnesses returned. On the way to the hospital my ambulance became stuck in traffic, I knew this was not good but only wished I could see outside so I would know where I was.

Moments later, I was floating above my ambulance looking down at it racing towards me in slow motion. I was struck by the perfect clarity, and complete sharpness of mind I was experiencing, and have never remembered being in such a good mood! I had forgotten nothing about my life, and knew it was my ambulance I was seeing. Yet this time no sound was present, only peace and happiness existed all around me. I was not expected to survive the night, and my poor wife was escorted out from behind my door, where she was hiding.

About a week later, I had another episode of a clog developing in my heart where the stent had been placed. I remember an African American nurse telling me: (Mr. Dell, the Enemy knows who you are, but this will not stop what the Lord has planned for you!) I had prayed this prayer the week before in the privacy of my car, knowing that Paul and Silos were known to Satan, but the rest of the Church was so ineffective in there walk with our Lord, that the Enemy never bothered with them.

I also remember hearing a sermon on the radio that week, about how no one knows how long they have to live!

Now working backwards:

In 1999 one night in our old farmhouse, the Lord gave me a “Technicolor” vision of a heart beating with rich green grass about a year after my marriage. The next day early Pastor Alistair Beg was preaching on the radio about his Father, a Shepherd in Scotland. Pastor Beg explained that the word “Pastor” is derived from the word “Pasture” and that is only God who gives a man a “Pastor’s Heart”! It was than that I understood the meaning of my vision... But wait; (and I hope you remember the paragraph I wrote about Christ being next to me in death) well, that same image was sitting next to me that day in the car, only I hardly paid any attention to it! This is because most people are taught not to pay attention to shadows, images or light out of the corner of their eyes!

But, Like the Bible teaches us; the Spiritual World is all around us constantly, but we are so conditioned to living in a physical state (and with good reason, I might add) that we never hardly ever pay attention.

This is why undistracted private prayer with our Lord is so important, and we must deny our flesh when we really intend to fellowship with God. This is the one of the reasons fasting is important in prayer.

Not as some pious ritual or in trying to please God, but it is because we must work hard in prayer to get past our own “natural man”!

By grace we are saved, and we will continue to be Saved; but “walking in the Spirit” and not in the flesh takes discipline, not intellectual understanding, or simply “spiritual emotionalism” but real discipline in Christ.

When we can do this, and stop leaning to our own understandings (or what men think). Than we will all start having a closer relationship with our Lord and Redeemer.

I pray the Lord will bless your understanding, of what I have written.

In Humility, Roland Dell USA (Ret.)

Create a church,

LUNI — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:48:04 GMT

Please delete my church group, Look Up Not In, , after reading other comments , a (delete church group)seems like a new option button to add.

Edit a published Blog?

Bill Stevenson — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:20:51 GMT

I posted a message on my blog and it begins with a lot of computer language before it starts the comments. Can I edit the blog once it has been published?

Unable to save profile changes

wheelin2serve — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:39:39 GMT

I am unable to add anything to my profile except my picture. I switched from my alternate browser to IE thinking that might help, and it didn't. I am getting quite acquainted with my bio, testimony, and favorite verses (which is probably a good thing) seeing as how I have typed them 4 times now, but I would like for these changes to be saved to keep from having to do it a 5th time. I have other things to do today :)

Symptom:
When I click on the save button at the bottom of the page, it simply takes me back to the top of the page. When I close out of the edit profile section, none of my changes are saved

Is there something wrong with the site today that would be causing this to happen.

Leaving my "Edit Profile" window open until further notice,

Mike

Pastors.com Covenant, Terms and Privacy Policy

Matt — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:59:35 GMT

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pastors.com mobile edition

Mike Brummitt — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:13:25 GMT

Is there a plan for a mobile edition of pastors.com for blackberries and iphones?

Suggestions

Randy Willis — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:49:31 GMT

Well, just one suggestion for now, but others may want to offer suggestions as well.

You may already have plans for this, but I thought I'd post anyway ...

The Groups pages (I pay the closest attention to the Pastors General page) will likely get pretty overwhelming over the course of time (especially as the site goes live). Would there be a way to sort the list of groups in some way, perhaps by date added, or something. And/Or groups up to a week old (or whatever) could have a tag that says "New."

As it is now, I pretty much have to read through the entire list to see what's new since the last time I checked it. That's not too bad yet, but as I said, I think that's going to get out of control before too long!

Thanks for your efforts. The site is taking shape very well!

When will the old/archived forum be available?

Randy Willis — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:25:41 GMT

When will the old/archived forum be available? I'd like to link to some old stuff (e.g., merger thread, etc.) when it's available. I'm not in a hurry; just wondering if there's a timeline.

Thanks!

Church groups

Brian La Croix — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:57:48 GMT

My page says I'm not a member of any church groups.

What is the point of having a group for your church? Is this mainly for staff pastors and such who want to communicate through the forum?

I'm wondering because if the site is geared mainly to pastor, there doesn't seem to be a need to start a church group.

Of course, it's more than possible that I just don't get it. And on a Saturday afternoon as I try to get my sermon ready for tomorrow (and being thankful that we don't have an evening service...), this is probably the likely case!

This wouldn't bug me so much, except that when I go to my home page, there's this big red notice about this. And since I'm a major people-pleaser who cares what others think about me, I don't want to be seen as being defective by having this notice...

Thanks!

Points?

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:32:44 GMT

So, I've seen other people who have a similar number of posts as I do, but waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more points. How does that happen? How do I get mega-points for my posts?

Old Downloads

Larry D. McGarry — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:27:00 GMT

How do you find the old downloads that you've had in the past. I was looking for a particular item that I had purchased some time ago and I can't seem to get around on this new site.

How can we find people?

Brian La Croix — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:27:37 GMT

Will there be a "listing" for lack of a better term of users? There is a search feature, but if we only knew that person by their old username and they change it to their real name (as I and many others have), how can we find them?

Can there be something like a "today's new members" page or link?

Thanks!

Official Launch and Logging In

Anonymous — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:47:18 GMT

I have multiple forum pages bookmarked from the beta version, and I'm set to automatically sign in each time (or just stay logged in?) Since the official launch on Thursday, when I use those same bookmarked links I'm taken to the forum approximately half the time, and I get an error message. the other half. When I get the error message I have tried to log in from the saddlebackresources site, but am taken to the old forum.

Is the hit-and-miss thing I'm experiencing forum-wide and just a bug that needs to be worked out? Or, is it something that's happening because of my saved bookmarks from the beta version? I'm wondering if I should just go through and re-bookmark everything? (I'm wondering if this makes sense, also - it's early.)

Thanks.

Will there be a place to post and search for PD jobs

jonmc — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:59:14 GMT

Will there be a place to post and search for PD jobs?

jon