Dying with Cancer - My Mom - Mother of 3 - Wife of One - A Lover of Jesus

12 years ago my mom was diagnosed with brain and lung cancer. It was a day I will never forget. My world came crashing down around me with complete disbelief in what was happening. I remember I wanted to just crawl up in a ball and sleep it away. She had less than a 1% chance of surviving more than 6 months. 12 years later after brain surgery and a lung removal it has come back in a vengeful way. Monday January 14th 2008 my mom has been given less than a week to live. They have found a massive tumor in her brain and now is in a hospital bed in the middle of my sister’s house waiting to make her final journey to home. A home that Christ has promised to her, to me and to you if we are willing to turn to Him.

Today she is still alive in and out of consciousness. I have been able to pray with her, read scripture to her and sing praises to her. But most of all I want to HONOR her and glorify God with her life. This is my first attempt into honoring my mom who has meant the world to me in so many ways.

If you have read my testimony or known anything about me I lived a life of pretty much debauchery for 29 years. Yes my parents took me to church all the way up until I was 16 and I basically said I am not going back. They tried to give me a good foundation (which they did) but I pretty much rejected everything in the church and wanted to live for Wes.

But who was praying for me? Who never stopped believing that God could change me? Who, through I am sure tearful nights, kept her faith strong? My mother, through the love of Christ in her heart. It was her faithful prayers that God answered. All of her children are living for Christ today. Between the 3 of us right now she has 6 grand kids and they are all being raised to know Christ. One women’s prayers have made an impact in this world. She has two children in ministry and one who loves the Lord with all her heart.

One women’s prayer after 30 years saved a marriage. One women’s prayers have saved a family. One women’s prayers can impact the world for Christ. One of the things I am going to miss the most is knowing there will be one less powerful prayer warrior who prayed for me all the time will be gone. I love you mom. I can’t wait to see you again the way you were to be created from the beginning of time. All my hope is in Christ and I thank you for your faithful prayers that He pulled me from death to life because of you.

Oprah and Friends - A Course in Miracles

Oprah has launched a new radio program called "A Course in Miracles". This is the just downright sickening and I can't believe anyone would buy into this gobbly gook. Here is an excerpt on what this course is all about. 


"A Course in Miracles (often called just "the Course") is an educational program for retraining the mind that is spiritual, rather than religious, in its perspective. Although it uses Christian terminology, the Course expresses a universal experience, and its underlying ontology is reminiscent of ancient refrains, echoing the world’s most hallowed traditions.… 


Hmm can we say relativism, universalism and just a whole bunch of nothingness. Check out this last paragraph. If it wasn't serious I would laugh but they are serious and how many thousands are buying into this LIE?


Remember only this; you need not believe the ideas, you need not accept them, and you need not even welcome them. Some of them you may actively resist. None of this will matter, or decrease their efficacy. But do not allow yourself to make exceptions in applying the ideas the workbook contains, and whatever your reactions to the ideas may be, use them. Nothing more than that is required


What on earth does that paragraph mean? Seriously, I don't need to believe, I don't need to accept them and I don't even need to welcome them. Ok how about I just throw your whole idea in the garbage where it belongs. 


Check out this junk.


A Course in Miracles, Lesson 1
Original Air Date: January 1, 2008
Listen to today's lesson! 


Spiritual transformation begins with shifting your physical perceptions of what's real. If you think what you see and hear is all that's real, you'll be dictated by the limits of your senses. 


Extend your perception beyond what your senses register…to what your heart knows to be true. Be willing to have your eyes opened to the love in any situation, even when with your physical eyes you cannot see it. 


That is the miracle beginning. 



Begin to shift your perception of what's real, with Lesson 1: 
Nothing I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place] means anything.


1. Now look slowly around you, and practice applying this idea very specifically to whatever you see:
◦ This table does not mean anything.
◦ This chair does not mean anything.
◦ This hand does not mean anything.
◦ This foot does not mean anything.
◦ This pen does not mean anything.


2. Then look farther away from your immediate area, and apply the idea to a wider range:
◦ That door does not mean anything.
◦ That body does not mean anything.
◦ That lamp does not mean anything.
◦ That sign does not mean anything.
◦ That shadow does not mean anything.


3. Notice that these statements are not arranged in any order, and make no allowance for differences in the kinds of things to which they are applied. 2That is the purpose of the exercise. 3The statement should merely be applied to anything you see. 4As you practice the idea for the day, use it totally indiscriminately. 5Do not attempt to apply it to everything you see, for these exercises should not become ritualistic. 6Only be sure that nothing you see is specifically excluded. 7One thing is like another as far as the application of the idea is concerned.


4. Each of the first three lessons should not be done more than twice a day each, preferably morning and evening. 2Nor should they be attempted for more than a minute or so, unless that entails a sense of hurry. 3A comfortable sense of leisure is essential. 


Quote of the Day
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

Osteen - Mormons are True Christians

Osteen is at it again. He tells us Mormons are Christians. He uses Mitt Romney as his example because Mit has stated that he believes in Christ as his Savior. This is the deception of the mormon church to use Christian lingo but to poor completely different meanings into it.

Does Osteen have any type of discernment skills whatsoever? He is a dangerous man.

Wes Porter
Galatians 2:20

Apologetics Bible - Who Is This?

For Christmas this year I received the new Apologetics Study Bible. I have found some interesting articles in it already. Some are very  good and some that I do not agree with completely (of course not the scripture but commentaries and articles in it). But there is a fantastic article by the late D. James Kennedy titled Christ: The Fulfillment of Prophecy. Read through these scriptures and at the end he asks a skeptic a very good question.

• More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. (Psalm 69:4)
• The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed (Psalm 2:2)
• Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me. (Psalm 41:9)
• ... “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones. (Zechariah 13:7)
• 12 Then I said to them, “If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” And they weighed out as my wages thirty pieces of silver. 13 Then the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the lordly price at which I was priced by them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord, to the potter. (Zech 11:12-13)
• Now muster your troops, O daughter [2] of troops; siege is laid against us; with a rod they strike the judge of Israel on the cheek. (Micah 5:1)
• I gave my back to those who strike, and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard; I hid not my face from disgrace and spitting. (Isaiah 50:6)
• For dogs encompass me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet (Psalm 22:16)
• My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? (Psalm 22:1)
• 7 All who see me mock me; they make mouths at me; they wag their heads; 8 “He trusts in the Lord; let him deliver him; let him rescue him, for he delights in him!”
• They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink. (Psalm 22:7-8)
• I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast; (Psalm 22:14)
• Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. (Isaiah 53:4)
• He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth. (Isaiah 53:7)
• they divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots. (Psalm 22:18)
• Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors. (Isaiah 53:12)
• ...you shall not break any of its bones. (Exodus 12:46)
• He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken. (Psalm 34:20)
• “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. (Zechariah 12:10)
• And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth. (Isaiah 53:9)
• For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy One see corruption. (Psalm 16:10)
• You ascended on high, leading a host of captives in your train and receiving gifts among men, even among the rebellious, that the Lord God may dwell there. (Psalm 68:18)
• The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.” (Psalm 110:1

D. James Kennedy writes: (talking to a skeptic)


I said to him, "About whom did I read?"
He replied, "Well, you obviously read of the life and ministry and suffering and death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth."
I said, "Is there any question in your mind about that?"
He answered, "No that could refer to no one else."
I replied, "Well then, I would want you to understand that all of the Scriptures I just read to you are taken from the Old Testament, which was completed some four hundred years before Jesus was born. No critic, no atheist, no agnostic has ever claimed that any one of those writings was written after His birth. In fact, they were translated from Hebrew into Greek in Alexandria some 150 years before He was born. If this is merely a book written by men, would you please explain to me how these words were written?"


I would love to hear a response from someone who has an answer besides divinely inspired.