• Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

Recent content by Rev Rafael

  1. Rev Rafael

    Why is the LDS church so attractive to people

    http://spiritwatch.org/whamowon.htm The most dangerous lie is the one that most closely resembles the truth.
  2. Rev Rafael

    Discussion Hebrew Roots; error or something else?

    Part of the incredible confusion that can easily result when trying to evaluate a movement, a Bible study or a teacher that hails that they are "Hebrew Roots" is that the term itself is VERY generic, encompassing and misleading. It can mean different things to different people, and decidedly...
  3. Rev Rafael

    The End Time Minisiter

    We preach to lead and feed the saints at the table of the Lord that they may become more like Christ and be heralds of His Kingdom in a godless and gainsaying world by their very lives. That's what preachers do. Do that and the rapture stuff will figure itself out. The doctrine of the rapture...
  4. Rev Rafael

    Are Mormons and JWs Christians?

    As a minister of the Gospel and one who has worked with an outreach to those in cults and abusive religion, and after having come to know many LDS and JW's personally, as well as those who left these groups, I can categorically say that the religions are not Biblically grounded, reject many of...
  5. Rev Rafael

    The Prosperity Gospel 2: Deuteronomy 28

    The "Curse of the Law" teaching supposedly derived from Deuteronomy 28 is one of the most inclusive fundamentals of Word of Faith teaching. Any and every Faith teacher you will encounter cites it as scriptural proof that divine health and wealth are part of the New Covenant that Christians...
  6. Rev Rafael

    Is my church a cult?

    That is true. Every bit of it. But there's something else to consider here. These things take place, I feel, in settings where we least expect them because of the power of God's Word and the character of merciful love that He is. His promises never "returns void" as Isaiah 55:11 declares...
  7. Rev Rafael

    Differences among Pentecostal denominations

    .. would be unspiritual? Jesus didn't think doctrine was junk that got in the way of the Spirit: it was one of the sticking points of the controversy that arose as he taught as he affirmed in John 7:17 and Mark 12:38 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of...
  8. Rev Rafael

    The Prosperity Gospel 1: 3 John 2

    Many Charismatic and Pentecostal believers follow all too closely the noxious "prosperity gospel" as advanced by the Word of Faith movement that is among them. These "Faith" people are convinced that this ideology is based on the Bible. My postings will highlight my concerns that is it not and...
  9. Rev Rafael

    You can take your $ and go to hell with it for all I care - RW Schambach

    Schambach's preaching didn't stop his presence at the The Bighair Network's annual Fleece-A-Thon's to fundraise for that black hole of charismatic extremism.
  10. Rev Rafael

    Hands Shaking During Prayer: Does the Holy Spirit Make you Shake?

    Being "slain in the spirit" is nothing less than man's reaction to the overflowing power and presence of God within and/or without them. So is the kind of trembling that the OP has shared on. I have always felt that it is the result of the inabiIity of our human and fallen vessels to contain the...
  11. Rev Rafael

    Things that annoy you about your church?

    I have just moved back to the Chicago Metro area after being trapped by the will of God in the Holy City of Cleveland, TN. I am settling into a search for a home church and think I've found one so I can't say much about it and won't. Now, I have been in the ministry since 1983. I've been to a...
  12. Rev Rafael

    How to deal with a boyfriend who gets angry easily

    Very simple .. 3 steps Conclude that living in fear over someone else's issues is unfair to you and that you're better than that. Break up, tell him to get lost and tell him to go off on someone else - and make it clear that if he harrasses you that you'll get the police all over him. Pray...
  13. Rev Rafael

    Seven Foundations Of Biblical Church Discipline pt 1

    Foundation 5 - Romans 16:18, 1 Corinthians 5:5 Breaking Fellowship Biblically To Compel Repentance 17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. 18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus...
  14. Rev Rafael

    Seven Foundations Of Biblical Church Discipline pt 1

    I'm still recovering from an illness and couldn't make it to church today, but I felt led to share this old study I did years ago .. "Church discipline? What's that?" Most people will say when you bring the term up, sometimes with a smirk, sometimes with obvious disdain over another sign of...
  15. Rev Rafael

    Sanctification - the lost keys to Pentecost

    I have online my ministry website as streaming Real Audio files. When I finally get a chance to post URL's here, I'll post them. Until then, you can Google them out using the terms Spiritwatch dot org Pentecostal sermons. These are some of the finest expositions of Biblical truth I've ever heard.
See more
Top Bottom