Give me 3 solid online Pastors to follow

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jacko

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Magenta said:
Oh! Off topic, but I realized a little while ago that my water baptism's 20 year anniversary was two days ago .:D
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Our entire family getting baptized on 24 November.
I had to take two baptisms classes. They were vetting us to make sure I was legitt with knowledge, and I still have an interview upcoming with the senior pastor.
 
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DRobinson

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jacko said:
Our entire family getting baptized on 24 November.
I had to take two baptisms classes. They were vetting us to make sure I was legitt with knowledge, and I still have an interview upcoming with the senior pastor.
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Why is your family getting baptized?
 
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Magenta

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jacko said:
Our entire family getting baptized on 24 November.
I had to take two baptisms classes. They were vetting us to make sure I was legitt with knowledge, and I still have an interview upcoming with the senior pastor.
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That's awesome! My baptism was at the end of an Alpha Course that I had attended. I had been invited by a friend who was to be one of the table's hosts, a woman in AA that I'd sort of "run into" at a meeting after losing track of her for a few years... in fact, I did not know it was her until she was asked to share. She had a very distinctive voice/accent. I'm trying to remember all the details. I think I was at a cake meeting. Maybe a year before that, a guy I had heard share at a speaker meeting where, after the speaker shared their story somewhat in depth, others were asked to share, and without fail, each told us many of the terrible things they had done in their life but were all quick to add, "But I was a good person." Then this guy was asked to share, and after walking to the podium, he immediately said, "I don't know about being a good person. I lied because I was a lair. I stole because I was a thief. I cheated because... " He went on like that, and then walked away from the mike, back to his chair at the back of the room. My spidey senses were on high alert. WHO WAS THAT MAN??? His share was so unusual I wanted to talk to him, but I did not get the chance to. I don't think I saw him again until that meeting, where I ran into that woman. She was a Christian, of course, being a host at an Alpha Course, and so was he. Such brutal honesty. No apologies or excuses or rationalizations like everyone else had offered up. Anyways, I got invited to this Alpha Course by this woman I had not seen in years, and she was friends with this brutal honesty guy who had so impressed me with a share about a year earlier. I had been firmly ensconced on the fence about Christianity... though I had been going to church for a few months... the same church this woman attended! So I said yes to the Alpha Course, not knowing that part way through I would come to the realization that I no longer needed any more convincing of the Truth of God's revealed written Word after running from God in defiance and rebellion for most of my adult life. That would have been about thirty years at the time, since I was almost fifty then... Another friend of mine from a different fellowship had given me a Bible for my 42nd birthday... she was thrilled to attend my baptism, and told them to hold me down a long time because I had so much to wash away. LOL. Fond memories. What an adventure. Will you be testifying at your baptism? I was surprised how many people attended the baptisms. There were about six of us I think who got baptized at the end of that Alpha Course. I have a CD of the testimony I gave as I stood in the baptismal fount. I should pull it out and listen to it. God bless you and your family, Jacko!!!
 
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jacko said:
1) Rick Warren

need two more...
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Maby you should follow Jesus, but not man.
Non of those Pastors is 100 % correct in their teachings. Even when they are sound speakers. You have to measure them with the word of God.
But I fear, that many listeners following those which are talking what they like to hear.
 
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Magenta

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Publican said:
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Ephesians 2:1-3 You were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience. All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
 
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Magenta

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Ephesians 2:4-7 ~ Because of His great love for us, God, Who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved! And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus. :)
 
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