“Father, I have a problem. It’s weighing heavy on me. It’s all I can think about, night and day. Before I bring it to you in prayer, I suppose I should pray for those who are less fortunate than me-those in this world who have hardly enough food for this day, and for those who don’t have a roof over their heads at night. I also pray for families who have lost loved ones in sudden death, for parents whose children have leukemia, for the many people who are dying of brain tumors, for the hundreds of thousands who are laid waste with other terrible cancers, for people whose bodies have been suddenly shattered in car wrecks, for those who are lying in hospitals with agonizing burns over their bodies, whose faces have been burned beyond recognition. I pray for people with emphysema, whose eyes fill with terror as they struggle for every breath merely to live, for those who are tormented beyond words by irrational fears, for the elderly who are wracked with the pains of aging, whose only ‘escape’ is death.

“I pray for people who are watching their loved ones fade before their eyes through the grief of Alzheimer’s disease, for the many thousands who are suffering the agony if AIDS, for those who are in such despair they are contemplating suicide, for people who are tormented by the demons of alcoholism and drug addiction. I pray for children who have been abandoned by their parents, for those who are sexually abused, for wives held in quiet despair, beaten and abused by cruel drunken husbands, for people whose minds have been destroyed by mental disorders, for those who have lost everything in floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, and earthquakes. I pray for the blind, who never see the faces of the ones they love or the beauty of a sunrise, for those whose bodies are deformed by painful arthritis, for the many whose lives will be taken from them today by murderers, for those wasting away on their deathbeds in hospitals.

“Most of all, I cry out for the millions who don’t know the forgiveness that is in Jesus Christ…for those who in a moment of time will be swept into Hell by the cold hand of death, and find to their utter horror the unspeakable vengeance of eternal fire. They will be eternally damned to everlasting punishment. O God, I pray for them.

“Strange. I can’t seam to remember what my problem was. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.”

(Taken from the Evidence Bible)

Anyone else tired of watching the world go down hill?

I wish I knew what to do about it. I can post all day long about why it’s wrong, but God’s already done that. It’s called a conscience. So if man is able to ignore God, surely they are able to ignore me.

I know that in the end days evil will abound. But where is the Holy Spirit? Isn’t that supposed to be overflowing as well?

Perhaps I know why it hasn’t been overflowing in my life. Or this country. In my video, The Passion Promise, Paris Reidhead is quoted saying “…are you using God as an end or a means?” I, for one, have been using Him as a means to my own end. I’ve been so distant from Him, because He hasn’t been anything more to me than a way to fix my life or this country. Maybe a little more. But not enough.

Even writing this out, I noticed that I called the Holy Spirit an it. I don’t think He likes that.
I’ve even started to write sermons based upon what I think the people need, and not what God wants.

There are so many people in this world, myself included, who are capable of declaring war on sin, evil, and the flesh. But instead of using the immense power given to us by God we raise our white flags almost proudly declaring peace with a world that hates Christ. Not for God’s sake, obviously, but for our own selfish desires and ambition.

Who are we that we should even consider our own fate when there are thousands of souls, within and without the church, over whom the Lord weeps?  They will spend an eternity in Hell because I wont spend a minute in surrender sharing the gospel. Shame on me. I deserve a fate worse than theirs.

Who are we that we think we have the right to a comfortable life? We rub the name of Jesus Christ in the mud. He denied comfort and chose instead the most gruesome way to die after living a most humble lifestyle. There are 159,000 Christian slain every year, and I distance myself from them.

Who are we to call ourselves Christians? We use the word so flippantly. I don’t have the right to the word any more than I could call myself a U.S. Marine.

Perhaps nobody does. At least I see that now.

-Cullen Webb
Soldier in Training

I haven’t been this angry in a long time.

In 2008 voters came together to decide the fate of same-sex marriage in California. 52.47% of voters wanted it restricted to only one man and one woman. With a lead of about 504,000 votes, it was an obvious decision.

But lately the government doesn’t care about the opinion of its people.

Yesterday, August 4th 2010, federal judge Vaughn R. Walker told the American people that He understands the constitution better than the rest of us. By stamping the ban as “unconstitutional” He essentially gave the millions of voters a pat on the head while saying “Silly people. Law is government.”

We don’t want this. We told them we don’t want this. We are the people the constitution defends, and it is instead being used against us because a judge fails to interpret it beyond His own nearsightedness.

I’m not going to argue about the morality of homosexuality. I already did that. But I want you to realize where morality comes from:

If there is a God, then it comes from Him.
If there is no god, then it is the opinion of the majority.

But there is a God, and He says no. And the opinion of the majority also says no.

It is a proud and arrogant thing for this judge to say otherwise.
Pray for Him. Pray for Him hard.

-Cullen Webb

My family doesn’t have kind words for dating. I’ve been brought up to view it as both pointless and dangerous. And when I went through a time of questioning that fact, Dad brought to light the example of Jacob: a man who was very diligent in marrying the right woman.

Although I now see eye-to-eye with my Dad concerning dating, I don’t think Jacob was all He was said to be.

I was reading over His account a week-or-so ago and I realized just how ridiculous His life actions were.
Let us go through a list:

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Black and white. That is how the law starts out when it is written on our hearts (Romans 2:15.)

But God gave us a clever mind. A mind that is capable of reasoning away anything we wish to. We can convince ourselves that theft is okay, if you take only a little. Or that lying doesn’t matter, so long as nobody gets hurt.
Abortion is no exception to this list of exceptions.
I don’t care who you are. You could be the great grandchild of Adolf Hitler, but if you saw a small child about to be murdered, you would do everything you could to prevent it from happening.

Unless, of course, that child is in the womb.

Our culture has argued itself stupid with abortion, when in its simplest forms, we are killing babies.

They reason that they are not living, yet they feel pain.
They say that they are just extension of the mothers body, no more than a zit, yet it can have a completely different blood type.

I could go on with a list of reasons why I think abortion is wrong. But I’m going to let God do the talking.

The Value of Children (more…)

I was reading an article by an atheist a very long time ago, and He used this image to argue that God was evil.

Before I discuss whether it is evil for God to kill people, I want to point something out about this image. It’s very inaccurate. God has killed many more people than 2,038,344.  He cursed all of humanity, dealing us the inevitable blow of death.

Let us begin with the 9/11/01 attacks on America.

So many people ask the question “how can a good God allow this?” I have heard many answers. Some very good. But I wish to offer my own to you.  It begins with an assumption. Let’s assume that 50% of the people in the twin towers were sinless, Godly people who deserved to go to heaven. And the remaining 50% were sinful wretches who deserved to go to Hell.
Please note that this is pure speculation and I am in no way trying to judge or belittle any of the victims of 9/11.

When the airplanes struck the towers, and when they eventually collapsed,  all the people who deserved Heaven went to Heaven, and all the people who deserved Hell went to Hell. Why is this evil?

For those who deserve Heaven, Earth is the closest thing to Hell they will ever experience and thus desire to leave.
For those who deserve Hell, Earth is the closest thing to Heaven they will ever experience and their judgment will be good.

Who deserves Hell and who deserves Heaven?

During our assumption the people who deserved Heaven or Hell were split into a clean 50 – 50. Do you know the actual percentage of people who deserve Hell?

100%

We have all committed sins against a righteous God and deserve His wrath.

Romans 3:23
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;“

Few seem to grasp this. And is it no wonder, when we are bombarded by “you deserve this” and “you deserve that” in our commercials, radio and newspapers?

When God kills somebody He has the full authority to do so. Does this anger you?

Consider this:
What if you turned on the television and saw on the news that a judge allowed a serial killer go, simply because he was sorry? Would that anger you? Of course it would, because the judge was not good in his decision.

Would you be angry if the judge sentenced the man to death? Probably not, for that is a righteous and just decision.

Conclusion:
When God sentences a man to death, it is because that man deserves it. And any anger you feel is due to your own pride and inflated image of self-worth.

See yourself as God sees you, and then you will know the balance between love, wrath and mercy.

-Cullen Webb

Here is a fantastic video depicting the inconsistent laws in place to protect animals and even flowers from being killed, all the while leaving our children vulnerable to abortion.

It covers a great many other points, all of which I agree with.

I still plan on writing my own remarks concerning abortion, but this will do for now.

-Cullen Webb

Okay, that may be an overstatement. But not a big one.

It’s not because Jesus was resurrected. Because that is my very reason for living.
It’s not because of the sinners who come in, looking for something different. Because I may be the one they need to talk to.

But the people who every Easter decide to play a game called “church” anger me. They come every year en mass and disappear as many times as that. Never changing, never repenting.

I hate that.

But apparently other Churches don’t. For example: Bay Area Fellowship of Corpus Christi.

You’d think they have enough members on Easter as it is, but they don’t think so. They are offering over $1,000,000 in door prizes for those who come on Easter. Prizes range from HDTVs to brand new cars. They are handing out 1,500 goodie bags worth $300 each.

Spend half a second thinking about this question: why would people go to a service like this?
A: The door prizes?
B: Jesus Christ?
C: The door prizes?
or D: The door prizes?

And which would change their life more, a brand new HDTV or the sermon? Who could possibly pay attention during a service like that?

How could the Holy Spirit have elbow room when there are Televisions and Bicycles competing for the peoples affection?

Every year they become more and more luke-warm to the things of God. And what’s worse is that their teaching their children that it’s okay.

If I had any less patience with them, I’d chase them away with sticks before letting them think it’s okay to pay a social call to God. I’d make it very clear their not fit for the church, and that they are the hands of an angry God.

This is stupidity.

-Cullen Web

Sounds like an odd statement huh? But it’s true. He no longer has control over his own words!

Take a look at this:

I realize that they put forth a lot of effort, but I do not appreciate the fact that they can control what his word is and is not used for. For those of you who cannot read the image, this is what it says:

When quotations from the NIV are used in non-saleable media, such as church bulletins, orders of service, posters, transparencies or similar media, a complete copyright notice is not required but the initials (NIV) must appear at the end of each quotation.

Quotations and/or reprints in excess of five hundred (500) verses, or other permission requests, must be directed to, and approved in writing by, International Bible Society.

All rights reserved.

Am I just silly, or is this wrong? From what I understand the NKJV is the same way. How can they gather the nerve to put a Copyright on the Word of God?! I don’t care how much work they put into it, they didn’t write it in the first place.

Proverbs 30:6
“Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.”

Obviously God doesn’t like it when people meddle with his things.

*sigh*

Oh well. I am interested in your thoughts on the matter though.
-Cullen Webb

1877

No, that’s not a date in history. That is the number of sermons I will have listened to by my 18th birthday this September. Not including revivals, campgrounds, or any other sermon aside from Sundays and Wednesdays.

That is too many sermons for the little work I have done for the Kingdom. Thousands of hours spent in worship and meditation, and yet not one single soul saved because I was willing to share the gospel of Christ.

Pathetic.

It is time I put to death my fear, buried my pride, and carried my cross.